Former Rep. Joe Walsh on Thursday slammed his former colleagues in the Republican Party for their fealty to President Donald Trump.
Walsh, who quit the GOP after a brief and failed 2020 bid to challenge Trump in the primary, shared a clip of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin deflecting when asked for his own opinion on green energy.
“I am for whatever President Trump is advocating for,” he said on Fox News.
Walsh needed just four words to describe the current state of the GOP: “It is a cult.”
Walsh also used the c-word after posting another clip, this time of Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) saying Trump should be “eligible for a third term,” which would violate the Constitution as currently constructed.
“He’s a true leader,” gushed Ogles, who has also nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ogles in January introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would allow Trump ― and, as written, only Trump, at least currently ― to serve a third term.
Walsh has repeatedly called the GOP a “cult” for its devotion to Trump.
He became an independent when he quit the party in 2020, but earlier this year joined the Democratic Party. He told Politico he made the switch “to help defeat my former party” and didn’t rule out running for office again as a Democrat.
Walsh was first elected in 2010 as part of the Tea Party movement that sprang up in opposition to then-President Barack Obama. He was criticized at the time for extremist rhetoric and admitted in 2019 he’s “said racist things on Twitter” for which “an apology is not enough.”
He has said that he regrets his past comments.
“I was passionate about my cause ― so passionate that I said and did things I regret, so passionate that I became, way more than I’m proud of, a divisive political asshole,” he wrote in June.
“I’m still a conservative, but I’m not a conservative jerk,” he added, saying he now wants to “help heal the divide in this country ― the divide I helped to create.”
