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Sykes has written for 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, the New York Daily News, and other national publications. If you're on TV, you can get Twitter famous. He's written a book about the Republican Party's embrace of Donald Trump and his own role in events that may have enabled Trump's rise. 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. Tim Miller, welcome to FRESH AIR. Tyler Jameson was born on February 21, 1985, and hails from West Virginia. And I just replied to them. That was the kind of party I wish I could have worked for. His new book is "Why We Did It." It's The Bulwark's job to talk about Jan 6, Democrats need to talk about kitchen table issues, and Chris Christie: We remember what . And I'm hoping that her story can maybe be a little bit of an offramp for certain folks as we unfortunately look ahead to maybe having to deal with this monster one more time. Tim Miller began his political career in 2004 after graduating from university. Miller: This is "Not My Party," brought to you by The Bulwark.Over the past three months, Trump's primary lead has ballooned from 15 percent to 37 percent according to the RCP polling . DAVIES: We're speaking with Tim Miller. and other national publications. The race was between Terry McAuliffe, kind of a centrist Democrat, and Ken Cuccinelli, a far-right, bigoted, anti-gay, anti-immigrant Republican. Jim Swift is a senior editor atThe Bulwark. 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. . You know, after the 2012 presidential cycle, you formed a thing called America Rising, which was DAVIES: You describe it as a chop shop that would mercilessly investigate and then eviscerate Democratic candidates and causes. I mean, you know MILLER: Yeah, she said she saved Stars and Stripes, even. - if Liz Cheney is not even welcome in Republican circles - right? He'll be back to talk more after this short break. and then as a writer for the Bulwark, . But because of the nature of this group I had created, you know, I was actually attacking McAuliffe on behalf of Cuccinelli. : Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality(Free Press, 1999) andGrowing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood(Ticknor & Fields, 1989). He's a former Republican communications staffer. What did you trade? And I think that we includes basically everyone who was involved in Republican campaigns during the time in which I came of age politically. I mean, how warped can you be? Amanda Carpenter is a political columnist for The Bulwarkand author of Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies To Us. 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. We don't like this guy, but we need good people. I didn't find any of those people interesting. He lives in Mequon, Wisconsin with his wife and three dogs. [1] He later earned a bachelor's degree from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. - friends of mine who had told me they didn't like Trump at some point over history. MILLER: Yeah. Kim Wehle is a contributor toThe Bulwark. His journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared inThe Weekly Standard,Commonweal,Image Journal,The Hedgehog Review, and other publications. His new book is about how the Republican Party came to embrace Donald Trump and, to some extent, his own role - that is to say, Tim Miller's own role - in creating the climate that enabled Trump's rise. So us at the RNC - I would have to approve it. [14] In November 2020, Miller announced he had left the Republican Party. MILLER: Basically, yeah. 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. How could you work for somebody that does not want to support gay marriage? It's going to take generations to get out of it. [4][13] Miller has written in support of Omar Ameen, an Iraqi refugee accused by Trump of being a member of ISIS. He was previously political director for Republican Voters Against Trump and communications director for Jeb Bush 2016. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Director and Chief Strategist, Digital Communications for Glover Park Group. DAVIES: You know, it's interesting that, I think - you know, I've covered politics for a long time in Pennsylvania. You might remember Olivia Troye, Elizabeth Neumann. Good afternoon and welcome to Press Pass, The Bulwark 's twice-a-week glimpse into the halls of Congress, the campaign trail, and sundry Washington weirdness. She has a B.A. 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. This is FRESH AIR. Sonny Bunch is the Culture Editor ofThe Bulwark. It ended up having more than Breitbart for a while because the material was so viral on Facebook. And so it's - so really, it's this kind of banal kind of desire to be seen, to be recognized for affirmation that drove a lot of people to do things that are pretty evil. Those - that was the reason Mitt Romney lost Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, not, you know, because of the self-deportation. But with the growth of cable TV and social media, you know, you guys are a little more public, so you can kind of get to be Washington famous. Barry started making videos at the age of 13, when he guilted his mother into allowing him to use his bar mitzvah money to buy a video camera and editing equipment. Founded in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, Charlie Sykes, and Bill Kristol,The Bulwarkfocuses on political analysis and reporting without partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices. They don't have partisan primaries. I was going to bring it up anyway, I mean, the fact that you were gay and closeted for a long time while you were Republican operative. I didn't have anybody in my life saying that to me, and I had more - I should have. None of them endorsed Joe Biden. And so we could get their articles on the Drudge Report and which, you know, would skyrocket their traffic and make them want to deal with us more. And at times, if an article appeared about your moderate candidate in Breitbart, you would have actually written it, right? In 2008, during John McCains presidential bid, he served as communications director for Iowa. I understand people's reservations. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. And we recruited a couple from the Trump administration. Who's the we in that sentence? This is FRESH AIR. 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. Tim Miller is currently an on-air analyst for MSNBC and a writer at large for The Bulwark, a website launched in 2018 which features news and opinion from a center-right perspective. I mean, this is - you're asking me just all of these things that make me feel horrible. I think I called him a grown-up Ralph Wiggum that you wouldn't even believe was real. And I think that now, you know, if you just fast-forward it, you see the same thing. I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but I'm a gay man. Really quickly on Alyssa, I just do want to say that that if there's any hope in this story, it's her. But I personally think your pearls are silly and reduce your credibility." . No, trust me. And now you're asking me how I can sleep at night? Tyler is one of two children born to Ann and Kent Jameson. Her campaign's problems perfectly mirror Meatball Ron's. Tim Miller April 20, 2023 5:20 pm Don't Daydream of a Third Party President He's a former Republican communications staffer. Miller's only child was born on January 3, 2018. . [28] Conservative political commentator David French wrote that it offered "painful" insights into the impact of partisanship and Trumpism on the American conservative Right. 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. He's a former Republican communications operative. His most recent book, How the Right Lost Its Mind, published by St. Martins Press, was released in October 2017. What's the point of editing this? Like, look. Sarah? Or borrow it from a friend. I had much more in common with, say, a conservative Democrat than, like, a Tea Party Republican in my politics, right? It wasn't like the boring 90s, but politics this week felt almost normal. 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 I think if you look back on this, that is, I think, the main mistake of the establishment part of the party in letting this kind of fake phony take over where he pretended to want to address their grievances in a way that was much more authentic, which is why they think that he's a truth teller, much more authentic than the ways in which we tried to address their grievances. And then my friend Caroline, who I end the book with, said this to me on the record. And I just want to say that, to me, I mean, whether you have sufficiently, you know, atoned for past misdeeds is between you and your conscience. Richard North Patterson is a lawyer, political commentator and best-selling novelist. I guess the other question is, did you have something to offer those voters? And I would literally write the blog post. Remember when the Massachusetts Democrat ran for president? That was a tough shot against my guy or my candidate. And it's nonsense about the election, stop the steal, the fraud. DAVIES: We need to take a break here. Like, your bosses would be impressed. As of 2020, Tim Miller resides in Oakland, California with his husband and their child. If a liberal, you know, kind of Hollywood movie had written about him, it would have - it would seem too cliche, you know, for them - for him to be a real person. Slack Tide by Matt Labash Paid subscriber Afternoon Tea Free subscriber Apricitas Economics Free subscriber Border-Stalkers Free subscriber Calm Down 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. On tomorrow's show, we talk with comedian Mo Amer. 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 to say that would be against the rules of the game. And so that's why I was surprised when, repeatedly, kind of otherwise gentle people, people that I knew to be, you know, volunteers in their community and, you know, people who I did not think of as jerks - right? Tell us about this site, what it hoped to do. 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. DAVIES: Well, Tim Miller, thank you so much for speaking with us. I just - there are plenty of things terrible at Breitbart, but I just want to be honest about who I'm spreading the tea about. And I would realize how, like, other people, other professionals, they appreciate someone on the other side even who knows the craft. Tim has taken over the Triad this morning with a report from on the ground in Arizona. But - so the right-wing website MILLER: Yeah. MILLER: Yes. And like I said before, I was much more aligned with, like, a centrist Democrat than I would have been with Steve Bannon. He has 297.7k followers on his official Twitter account @Timodc. I didn't realize this because things were either not true or just unfair, bad faith. MSNBC's political analyst is making news in public; find more on him here. Previously, she was an associate editor atArcDigitaland a columnist for theBoston Globe, theDetroit News, and RealClearPolitics. Like, why are you screwing this up? 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? We saw Mitch Daniels as a threat. 00:00:00. He is a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association. "Tim Miller is going to fight Donald Trump until the last delegate is counted," Miller told Showtime in 2016. . That was something that I did regularly. But that is not true. Learn how your comment data is processed. MILLER: Yeah. So let's just move forward. We own them. Back 15 seconds. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Sam Briger, Lauren Krenzel, Heidi Saman, Therese Madden, Ann Marie Baldonado, Thea Chaloner, Seth Kelley and Susan Nyakundi. And so if that is where we are - right? Campaign roles Let me reintroduce you. 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. DAVIES: Right. Be mad that there's a caravan coming across the border, you know, rather than addressing what was happening in their lives. Cathy Young is a writer atThe Bulwark. 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. Somebody needs to run it competently. The thing that I worry about is now the people that were consuming this information, right? [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. His family is based in Union. The Stories We Tell Ourselves. But they would see that as this huge win. Y'all - @BulwarkOnline is in the market for a White House correspondent. I mean, would it sound like, in some cases, people there made a difference? 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. Miller has also contributed to private companies. [23][24] It reached #2 on The New York Times non fiction list in July 2022. Sykes serves as the president of Defending Democracy Together Institute, sits on the advisory board of the Democracy Fund, and is a member of the board of Stand Up Republic. VisitTheBulwark.com to read new analysis and reporting, every day, for free. And this was the recommendations, which would flatten our biases. You know, you write - and I'll just quote this 'cause I think it's put very well. 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