Tim Miller: If You’re Feeling Hopeless, Hear Me Out

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🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Tim Miller was on MS NOW's Deadline: White House to explain why Trump’s Iran decision may be doing lasting damage to his own coalition. From GOP infighting to failed election interference efforts and another Democratic win in Washington, MAJOR cracks are starting to show.

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0:57.3	Subscribe to Bork takes on Apple, podcast, or Spotify. I'm not going to make a habit about this. I think it's the second time I've done this this week. But I'm going to give you guys a little opium. You're going to be positive and optimistic about the state of affairs. It's actually a nice appetizer for No kings. First, all, have a positive day of activism and outreach and a primal yop about protecting our democracy. That before that,
1:06.8	I give you a little bit of optimism because who the hell knows what Monday will have in store for us.
1:12.1	But I was on with Alicely M.endes and a bunch of folks on MS now and the Deadline White House hour.
1:17.6	And we talked about a bunch of stuff.
1:20.2	We talked about the efforts to screw with the elections coming up in the midterms.
1:27.0	We talked about the TSA funding
1:28.4	fight and I gave kind of my update on the latest on why the Democrats have now won that funding
1:32.7	fight and we talked about the cracks in the Republican coalition over the Iran War. And in each
1:37.9	segment, I was the optimistic one. I don't think that their election efforts are going to succeed, that the Republican efforts to mess with the elections. I don't think that their election efforts are going to succeed, that the Republican efforts
1:47.0	to mess with the elections. I don't think it's going to succeed. We have to be vigilant. We got
1:50.1	a fight. We need lawyers out there and activists and folks in the ground and media figures
1:56.1	like us watching and alerting people. Everyone has a role to play in ensuring that the pro-democracy
2:05.1	side overwhelms the MAGA effort to rig or screw with the elections.
2:12.3	And I think it's going to happen.
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