Quick Take: Having Blinders on in the RNC
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his book, "Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell." The pair discuss what it takes to be a player in "The Game," Tim's time working with Reince Priebus at the RNC, the struggle of compartmentalizing being a gay man and being a Republican and the kinds of Republicans involved in the transition to Trumpism, from "Messiahs" and "Little Mixers" like Chris Christie, to "Nerd-Revengers" like Sean Spicer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the |
| 0:12.5 | Michael Steel Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome back to the Michael Steel Podcast, I'm Michael Steel and I'm having a conversation |
| 0:24.2 | with my buddy Tim Miller and his new book, Why We Did It, A Travel Log from the Republican |
| 0:30.4 | Road to Hell. It is out, it is wonderful and it is, well as I said from the beginning, |
| 0:40.1 | it really takes a microscope to some of the players who put in motion and kept in motion |
| 0:47.5 | a lot of what we saw and fold over the last five years with Trump and even some respects |
| 0:56.0 | still to this day. So I have two disappointments, one related to the book and the other related |
| 1:03.1 | to this interview. The one related to the book is that you didn't call a brother to share |
| 1:10.8 | some thoughts about some of these assholes you were writing about. |
| 1:14.6 | I believe we had a brief talk about the little mix. Maybe I could have gotten some more |
| 1:24.2 | some more intel on some of the characters. I'm just kidding you and the second is Wimma |
| 1:30.3 | Pearls. Oh right now in the Convo, you know it's early out here, I like to keep the |
| 1:37.6 | pearls on afternoon, you know I put on the pearls afternoon. |
| 1:40.6 | Well it's great having you man this is this is I have to tell folks again about this book |
| 1:51.4 | that's that's different. It's titled Why We Did It and it's different from what's been out |
| 2:02.1 | on the street because unlike the other books that have kind of gone into these these these |
| 2:07.9 | grand scenarios and tell these sweeping stories and and you know kind of give you sort of a you |
| 2:14.5 | know broad 360, 10,000 foot level view of what was happening during this period. Why we did it |
| 2:24.5 | is like a microscope. It it singles out individual actors and it tries to help us better understand |
| 2:32.2 | and um, contextually why things happen the way they happen. In fact you you open up in the in |
| 2:41.3 | the introduction you say quote why we did it is a book about the people who submitted to every |
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