[13] He was included by The Washington Post on a list of Republicans "who hate Donald Trump the most". DeSantis' political messaging "hews very closely to the concerns of conservative social media users and podcast hosts," said Tim Miller, a former Republican operative who worked on Jeb Bush . I tried to be as honest as possible in this book and honest about myself, about my own failings. They get to Washington. And what that entails was, you know, basically always focusing the research, the opposition research, and the tracking on Democrats even, like you said at times, when the candidate was more appealing. - kind of these - a site that mixed little bit of news with memes and, you know, joyful, puckish material, a little bit of pop culture, you know, talking about conservative pop culture, not just, you know, the more liberal parts of Hollywood and just put it all together in one site with material that was easy to share on Facebook, easy to share on social media. Miller never supported Trump and actively worked against him after his own candidate in 2016, Jeb Bush, fell out of the race. But Steve Bannon was on the Republican team, right? Like, why are you screwing this up? They'd say, oh, man. He has appeared on Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, State of the Union with Jake Tapper, the Today Show, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, PBS, the BBC, and has been profiled on NPR. And so I thought they were much more interesting than - you know, we know that Stephen Miller hates the left, right? And so I think that there are legitimate grievances that these communities have that we didn't even try to address. His family is based in Union. I didn't realize this because things were either not true or just unfair, bad faith. [14] In November 2020, Miller announced he had left the Republican Party. They had my sensibility - more center-right in the party, not these culturally, you know, far-right ideologues. [26][27] In a review for The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai called the book "darkly funny" and praised Miller's insights into the inner workings of the Republican Party and the Washington D.C. political scene. But now, like, we'd created an entire ecosystem - from talk radio to Rush, to all these conservative media outlets - where we were constantly needing to feed that, you know, with negative information about Democrats. I think one of the most interesting parts of the book is sort of looking into how conservative media worked and evolved over the time that you were interacting with it. They were the ones who were out to topple, you know, the more moderate Republicans that I liked. We're giving them a little bit more credibility, you know? They don't have partisan primaries. And a lot of people - Washington is a town filled with people who were very high achieving, you know, young college, high school students, but who probably weren't very cool, probably were not very popular. And that was the mindset. [2], Miller was an Iowa staffer for John McCain in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, and later served as national press secretary for the Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential campaign. And she literally said, I actually think it's all negative. Had people like Alyssa not been protecting him from his worst impulses, might there have been 17 Republicans who've had the courage to vote to impeach him the second time so we would've been done with him? But they would see that as this huge win. Excited that @BulwarkOnline has the #1 Florida Man - Biden's man in Duval @steveschale - dissecting what went wrong for Democrats in the Sunshine State. In 2018, they circulated a research document linking anti-Facebook activists with financier George Soros, often the subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories, on behalf of Facebook. When you were part of America Rising, this Republican sort of attack force that would investigate Democrats and people around a video, their every comment and all that, you got to know Steve Bannon and cultivated contacts in, you know, the alt-right media world. Be mad that there's a caravan coming across the border, you know, rather than addressing what was happening in their lives. And that's why I want to get you on here and share this story with us. And so I saw kind of this entrepreneurial opportunity to work with two other people and create a Republican version that could compete with that. It's going to take generations to get out of it. And so my point is if you really - if that was really your reason to go in, that you cared about this country so much, that we needed good public servants, then then you would have spoken truth about what you saw before the election when we had a chance. MILLER: You know, well, here's what I - just before we did this interview, Dave, my old organization - we've been talking about America Rising - they fired their chairman because he had the gall to help Liz Cheney's campaign. There's a lot there. But a lot of your job involved taking down other moderates who would have been rivals to your candidates. Undercover Boss (with Rep. Abigail Spanberger), Ron DeSantis Has an Elizabeth Warren Problem, Dont Daydream of a Third Party President, Racist Chickens with their Heads Cut Off (w/ Rep. Gloria Johnson). And where reality is, is that we are still very divided, that this road has been a long time coming, and that it's not - you know, that we're not on a path to reconciling any time soon. And so we had to have this summit where we discussed whether or not they were going to take my edits. This was much more common than people realized. And I think that all of this set the stage for Trump's rise. And in the meantime, I think, exacerbated the grievance that the readers were feeling. His book offers a revealing look at how the conservative media world has evolved in some disturbing ways, and he takes a harshly critical look at Republicans who privately regard Trump as unhinged and dangerous but still found reasons to support him politically or work in his administration.

Apart from that, Tim Miller is a professional writer for Rolling Stone and also The Bulwark. You know, might the election in 2020 not have been quite as close because they would've - because voters would've seen what they - you know, what they voted in a little more clearly? And I think - I mean, this was all technically within the rules of politics, right? And I think we need some responsible donors and wealthy individuals to fund more particularly center-right media outlets that are responsible. Maybe we should respond to the legitimate grievances of people who - working-class people who are upset about the forever wars, people who the communities have been hollowed out by globalization. MILLER: Yes. Benjamin Parker is a senior editor at The Bulwark. And to drag other - the more moderate Republican candidates over to their ideology, right? And with the benefit of hindsight, I look back on it and see pretty clearly that it shouldn't have been surprising that somebody like Trump would have been able to take over a party and a political system that was, you know, the way that we had - you know, that we'd been playing it. I look back on things like that. I'm just so sick of the people with their Priuses and their coexist stickers drinking their coffee coladas and wagging their finger at me. I asked her, you know, at the end, what was it she liked about Trump? The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time.com, USA Today, National Review, The New York Review of Books. You know, a lot of Republicans who have denounced Donald Trump eventually came around to embrace him. He's a former Republican communications staffer. . DAVIES: And you describe a moment in 2006 where John McCain, who you were working for, suggested in an interview with Chris Matthews that, you know, gay marriage could be OK if we're talking about a private ceremony, not something legally recognized. He is known for his role as communications director for Jeb Bushs 2016 presidential campaign and as an outspoken Republican critic of former US President Donald Trump. Sarah? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. This Group Will Spend $10 Million to Try", "Trump's Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him? Her work has appeared in theNew York Times, theWashington Post, theWall Street Journal, theWeek,Foreign Policy, theAtlantic,Quillette, theNew Republic, and elsewhere. And like I said before, I was much more aligned with, like, a centrist Democrat than I would have been with Steve Bannon. I understand people's reservations. In 2017, he was co-host of the national public radio show, Indivisible, which originated from WNYC. Let me reintroduce you. He's a former Republican communications staffer. You might remember Olivia Troye, Elizabeth Neumann. And then, you know, they might tinker with it a little bit, but they would put it up on their site. And I was like, this is - what are you talking about? I mean, this - our political discourse has been contaminated, and I was one of the ones contaminating it for generations now. What about that? He's like, these Republican establishment guys that work for Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy still think they own us. I thought they showed great courage. Learn more about your ad choices. But what I realized was, in this D.C. culture that I'm now separate from, having been cast out of the party, that is - at dinner parties, that is what they do to comfort themselves, right? It had left some hard feelings in its wake. [18], Following the 2016 United States presidential election, Miller joined Definers Public Affairs, an opposition research-styled consulting firm working for corporate clients. You know, he had been - had divorced and then reconnected with his wife. August 14, 2022 Tyler Jameson, Tim Miller's gay husband, has received media attention. Gov. None of the members of the, quote, unquote, "Committee to Save America" tried to save America when there were only two choices on the ballot, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I remember watching this and thinking - you might imagine someone watching that and saying, oh, cool. 3. And I interviewed the founders for the book, and they said that at the beginning, we thought of our material as kind of like the FDA guidelines, you know, where, you know, we give people a little bit of red meat and maybe a little bit of the hard stuff for desserts. I mean, you write, you know, these are folks who, in a lot of cases, lived in, you know, towns hollowed out by the - you know, the deindustrialization of the United States. You worked mostly for moderate Republicans. The we is the Republican political class basically, which includes donors, conservative media, candidates - political candidates - and political operatives, of which I was one. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. He is a former contributing editor to the Weekly Standard; he also has served as editor of Milwaukee Magazine; editor of Wisconsin Interest Magazine; and founder and editor in chief of Right Wisconsin. MILLER: Yeah. And so to answer this question as part of that being honest is looking back on my own actions as a Republican hit man. [19] As a result of the controversy, Facebook ended its work with Definers. And I - you know, he's kind of a little aggressive about it. I don't even remember if I showed them to Jeb or not because I replied with just our kind of approved boilerplate language that we use for anything. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) I wanted to hear a little more about what was appealing about this DAVIES: How the game worked, what was psychologically reinforcing about doing stuff which hurt people who, you know, you probably would have had a lot of - a lot in common with. A Rolling Stone article of his trying to find hidden comments from unwilling GOP-Trump supporters received a widely shared quote: There are two choices, youll be on this ship of hell, or youll be in the sea drown. Had I been a voter in Virginia in that election, I would have preferred McAuliffe. And we're still dealing with Donald Trump in 2022, right? Like, is it worth the extra five bucks to use the word Hussein in Barack's middle name? If that sounds exciting/fun or you know someone who might be a fit share this listing. I guess the other question is, did you have something to offer those voters? Tim Miller, writer-at-large at The Bulwark. Then Donald Trump comes and takes over the party, and they really didn't want veggies anymore, right? That said, what do we do? I've noticed that the only Republicans who voted to impeach Trump that survived live in states that have these jungle primaries. What wasn't even suggested was actually, maybe we should challenge some of the other shibboleths of the Republican Party. She is also a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a former assistant U.S. attorney and associate independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation and author of How to Read the Constitution and Why(Harper Collins). Fans of the podcast might remember. She is a partner at a communications firm in Washington, D.C., and a founding director of Defending Democracy Together and the Defending Democracy Together Institute. Like that was the story that they told themselves to justify going in. And we thought we needed to appeal to a more diverse America, right? MILLER: Yeah. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and lives in Washington, D.C., with her family. And a lot of the reasons that you give are things that we would expect - I mean, power, ambition, access to the game, fame, all that stuff. And I thought it was a good idea at the time. There was - the famous one was we had a tracker that found a Democratic candidate in Iowa at a fundraiser that - he was making fun of farmers and attacking Charles Grassley and saying that a farmer shouldn't, you know, be in charge of these important Senate committees, which is obviously not a popular thing to say in Iowa. And, you know, people look at the January 6 committee hearings, and you see, you know, some of these lawyers like, you know, Eric Herschmann and even Pat Cipollone who, in critical moments when Trump wanted to seize voting machines and appoint, you know, Jeffrey Clark attorney general, put their feet down. He went to George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs to earn a BA and a major in Political Science. It's in the mail. Who's the we in that sentence? Founded in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, Charlie Sykes, and Bill Kristol,The Bulwarkfocuses on political analysis and reporting without partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices. In 2008, during John McCains presidential bid, he served as communications director for Iowa. And, you know, I look back at that and I say, OK, well, if I was able to do that, that explains quite a bit about how a lot of my colleagues ended up justifying going along with Donald Trump even though they found him, you know, repugnant. Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark. You could just ghostwrite me the perfect article, you know, on this website that Republican primary readers read? I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but I'm a gay man. Sonny Bunch is the Culture Editor ofThe Bulwark. He's a former Republican communications operative. And someone that works for Obama comes up to me at the bar and says, I just don't get it. And they started this website, and it skyrocketed. We are speaking with Tim Miller. His most recent book, How the Right Lost Its Mind, published by St. Martins Press, was released in October 2017.

Like, we didn't actually care about what the voters cared about. George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama, "Republican Anti-Trump campaigner: Trump presidency 'an utter disaster', "Big hire for Jeb: Tim Miller as comms director", "Huntsman Never Stood a Chance. She has a B.A. What did you get from it? And I think that now, you know, if you just fast-forward it, you see the same thing. DAVIES: Right. I think I called him a grown-up Ralph Wiggum that you wouldn't even believe was real. Kim Wehle is a contributor toThe Bulwark. Miller has also contributed to private companies.

Regional As seen in: The Bulwark, Yahoo, Rolling Stone, Flipboard, AlterNet, HotAir, GOSPEL365 PODCAST, Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), Church Leaders, The Bulwark Newsletter, Portside and more Programming note: Tonight's Thursday Night Bulwark will feature my colleagues Jonathan V. Last, Mona Charen, and Amanda Carpenter, who will be discussing the accelerating 2024 presidential campaign. They wanted the red meat. We're talking about, like, 2012, you know? And I felt like that gave me, hopefully, the credibility, to be honest, about the corrupt system that I was part of and honest about really some of the deranged and debased choices that some of my former colleagues and friends made in the future. An updated paperback edition was released in October, 2018. We need grown-ups in the room, somebody who can, you know, prevent some of the worst stuff from happening. Tim Miller: Sometimes Reality Sets In. And it's nonsense about the election, stop the steal, the fraud. It'd be a sign that you didn't get it. MILLER: I started doing these interviews with only people who I knew knew better - right? He was a communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, and subsequently became an outspoken Republican critic of former U.S. president Donald Trump. But they were developing a real-life anger that allowed them to justify working for somebody they knew was dangerous. It's where Democrats and Republicans are all together in the same pot. DAVIES: You know, one rationalization for going to work for Donald Trump that you are pretty dismissive of is the argument of a lot of people who took jobs in the Trump administration that, look; it's the government. You know, I read about the 2012 autopsy. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. And, you know, the 23-year-olds who are writing these texts don't really believe that the election was stolen, but they are now in an even, you know, exaggerated version of that same culture where speaking up and saying, I don't know if we should send this text, is a sign you don't get it. But I'm wondering, in this period, was the stuff simply factually wrong? I received a phone call after the book came out from one of the Breitbart reporters who I had very harsh words for. Steve Bannon knows he's lying, irrational exuberance took over Kari Lake HQ, and Mar-a-Lago is in a bubble. And then, you would use this material against them. (SOUNDBITE OF JOHN COLTRANE'S "OUT OF THIS WORLD"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with Tim Miller. Tim Miller is an American political consultant and writer. And I think what was revealing is that all of these people who said that they went in, you know, because they were going to be the ones that protected the country, you know, that was actually just - they were flattering themselves, right? Our guest today, Tim Miller, is a former Republican political operative whose new bestselling book takes a hard look at the Republican Party's embrace of Donald Trump and his own role in events that took the party down that road. At no point during that meeting did anybody say, should we be doing this, right? And we go very deep, and it gets very emotional on why she decided to, at the end, say no, finally speak out and say, I cannot do this any longer and stick with it, which is committed to doing, different than Bill Barr. MILLER: Yeah, it is kind of my argument. #toulagram. So I was incentivized to do that even though a lot of times, I was working with people that were kind of unsavory, where the other material on the website - maybe not what I had sent, but the other material on the website was outrageous. How could you work for somebody that does not want to support gay marriage? And I say, wait a minute. Armando Montelongo Bio, Net worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Erin McLaughlin Biography, Net Worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Damien Harris Biography, Net worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Girlfriend, Family, Sarah Yarkin Biography, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Age, Height, Wiki, Family, Brandon Frankel Bio, Net worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Girlfriend, Charleston White Bio, Net Worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Cynthia Monteleone Bio, Wiki, Husband, Net worth, Age, Height, Family, Brooke Olzendam Bio, Net worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Nailya Asker-Zade Bio, Net worth, Wiki, Age, Height, Boyfriend, Who is Carol Lee (NBC Reporter)? 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