Why We Did It: With Tim Miller [Rebroadcast]

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Note: This episode originally aired in July 2022.

Tim Miller joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his new 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, everybody welcome to the Michael Steele podcast. So glad you could join us. I'm joined today by Tim Miller. He's an MS NBC political analyst and colleague over there and a writer at large at the bulwark.
0:14.0	He was also communications director
0:15.8	for Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign
0:19.5	and a spokesman for the Republican National Committee,
0:22.2	something we both know a little bit about.
0:25.1	So we're excited to have you join us for this conversation
0:29.0	where we dissect the elements of the disease
0:32.4	and the delusions of the once proud men and women who called themselves Republicans and get into his new book, Why We Did It,
0:43.7	which is out now.
0:45.4	It's a travel log, as he puts it, a travel log
0:47.8	from the Republican Road to Hell.
0:50.6	You can't get any better than that,
0:52.2	right here on the Michael Still podcast coming up next.
0:54.8	This winter, memberships will never be the same again.
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1:17.0	Well I told folks, that you were coming on Tim, and I have to tell you man, I was like, oh oh I can't wait to hear this conversation.
1:37.2	I just first off my fan girls my fan girls or
1:40.5	yeah your fan girls, baby.
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