Tim Miller: People Don't Like This Insanity
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Tim Miller joined Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss why the killing of Renee Good—and the administration’s decision to release the video—may be a political turning point. What was supposed to project strength instead exposes a strategy that alienates swing voters, activates non-activists, and turns immigration from a GOP advantage into a liability.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I just got off with Nicole Wallace. |
| 0:02.0 | And one thing I like about talking to my friend Nicole is that she does try to focus on |
| 0:07.2 | who is acting in response to this administration, right? |
| 0:11.6 | And not ignore the people that are out there in the streets volunteering, right? |
| 0:16.5 | And not ignore who's not acting. |
| 0:18.3 | She was focused on in this moment, people that didn't talk at the Golden Globes last night. |
| 0:22.8 | Nobody talked to the Golden Globes. |
| 0:24.2 | You know, I think that she's a good antenna for that and for the value of the positive and negative reinforcement of getting people to act and getting people off their asses. |
| 0:36.2 | And so we had a great convo about that, |
| 0:39.1 | about people in the streets responding to ICE, had a little bit of a friendly disagreement with Mark |
| 0:44.0 | Elias about how optimistic to be about that. I think he's rightfully concerned about, you know, |
| 0:49.5 | the midterm elections and chicanery related to that. And, you know, my main takeaway from all this is the insanity and the craziness of the |
| 0:58.6 | last week is really traumatizing. |
| 1:01.2 | And a lot of people are down because of it. |
| 1:03.1 | I've heard about it in my life. |
| 1:04.8 | What's the old drama manual line? |
| 1:06.2 | Every crisis is an opportunity. |
| 1:07.8 | I always kind of hated that line because it felt so, I don't know, |
| 1:11.3 | Machiavellian and all this. But there's a hint of truth in it, right? Which is that people do not |
| 1:17.6 | want this insanity. Regular people don't. Okay. Fox drones do. Fucking people at the Magorilize, |
| 1:25.8 | people that just hate lesbians do. Right. There's like, there's some people in this country that we get a big fucking country. Okay. There's going Magorize people that just hate lesbians do right there's like |
| 1:28.2 | there's some people in this country that we get a big fucking country okay there's going to |
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