A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller is an outspoken Never-Trumper. He writes like he talks and his recent book, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell is by turns engaging, enraging and, sometimes, just sad, as he explores the human wreckage caused by Donald Trump. Miller is an MSNBC analyst, writer-at-large for The Bulwark, and host of “Not My Party” on Snapchat. Tim was Communications Director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign and spokesman for the Republican National Committee during Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. He has since left the GOP.
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| 0:00.0 | As disgusting as it is, one of the great mysteries of American politics will always be, |
| 0:12.8 | how did an ignorant, crooked, amoral, despicable, lying, cheating, flim-clam developer from New York |
| 0:20.4 | City take over the Republican Party. |
| 0:24.2 | How and why did so many Republican leaders who had worked for years to build up and lead their party, |
| 0:31.6 | suddenly toss all their principals out the window and worship at the altar of Donald Trump? |
| 0:38.5 | Well, it takes a party insider like Tim Miller to tell that story and explain how it happened. |
| 0:46.0 | At one time, Miller worked for John McCain, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, John Huntsman. |
| 0:51.1 | He was a self-described Republican Hatchet man, but he saw what was happening to the party. |
| 0:58.1 | He didn't like it. He couldn't stand Donald Trump, and he walked away. |
| 1:03.1 | Now in his new book, Why We Did It, Tim Miller tells a sad tale of so many who did not walk away, like Reins-Priebus, |
| 1:12.5 | Sean Spicer, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, and others. If you wonder, what the hell were they thinking? |
| 1:20.0 | How could they possibly justify working for or supporting a dirt bag like Donald Trump? |
| 1:27.0 | Read this book, Why We Did It by Tim Miller, who joins us today. |
| 1:32.4 | Tim Miller, good to talk to you, and thank you for joining us on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:36.6 | Hey, Bill. It's good to be with you, man. |
| 1:38.7 | Hey, so I see from your latest in the bulwark that, wait, Ted Cruz called you a hack. I mean, I know you had |
| 1:48.9 | this little confrontation with him out in Arizona. Here's just a little bit of it. |
| 1:55.4 | Hey, Senator. Good to see you in Arizona. It's good to be here. You objected to the 2020 vote here in |
| 2:00.4 | Arizona. And in the Senate, you're the lead Senate object good to be here. You objected to the 2020 vote here in Arizona. And in the Senate, |
| 2:03.1 | you're the lead Senate objector to that. Since then, there have been a few audits, the Republican |
| 2:06.9 | governor, Republican Senate president, the Republican Speaker of the House, all said the election |
| 2:11.0 | was fair. Do you disagree with Doug Ducey and agree with Blake Masters and Kerry Lake |
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