Former Republican Illinois congressman Joe Walsh admits he was a “divisive political asshole from the right.”

Former Republican Illinois congressman Joe Walsh on Tuesday admitted he was a “divisive political asshole from the right.”

“How do you call out the bullshit in the Republican Party in a way that wakes everybody else up? You don't need to convert them all, I guess, into Biden voters, but how do you wake them up and get them to stop being a threat to our democracy?” MSNBC host Nicole Wallace asked Walsh.

“I think a lot of it has to do with who's trying to wake them up, who that messenger is. And look, you know my history. I was a divisive political asshole from the right,” Walsh said. “I was a Trump supporter. I left that world because I realized, Nicole, you and I have talked about it, all the destruction that that leads to.”

Walsh was featured in a segment alongside Fred Guttenberg, a gun control activist whose daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, to share their views on being from opposite political parties but united against Donald Trump.

“I believe no matter who wins in November, this country's gonna be 100 times more divided," Walsh said. "And if the American people continue down this road where we want to destroy the people we disagree with, our democracy's gonna fail.

“I'll fully acknowledge that MAGA, my world on the right, is further down that road. But man, damn near all Americans now are on that road where, I hate the person I disagree with, I want nothing to do with them. Fred and I are just trying to show people that it's possible to listen to people you disagree with.”