MILLER: Well, shouldn't be surprising - the readers didn't want the veggies, Dave. And, you know, I just - I don't know that Saving Stars and Stripes magazine was worth risking, you know, Donald Trump getting a second term over. You were a press guy, so you dealt with them a lot. Sign-up to receive free editions of our newsletters in your inbox. But there were other right-wing websites that I'd send them an idea for a tip. Everything was outrage. [4], In 2015, Miller was hired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush to be a senior adviser to his presidential exploratory committee, Right to Rise political action committee (PAC), and went on to serve as the communications director for Bush's presidential campaign. And what they get it means is, they want to compete as hard as possible on behalf of their candidate. He is also author of nine books, including A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, The Hollow Men, The End of Privacy, 50 Rules Kids Wont Learn in School, A Nation of Moochers, and Fail U. He is known for his role as communications director for Jeb Bushs 2016 presidential campaign and as an outspoken Republican critic of former US President Donald Trump. He is currently a contributor toThe Washington Postand his work has appeared inThe Wall Street Journal,National Review,Commentary Magazine,The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. In his teenage years, he entered politics as a volunteer and began working on his skills as a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. Or do you Beg to Differ? So you kind of felt like you were taking advantage of them to give your moderate candidate DAVIES: Some exposure to voters that wouldn't otherwise know it. But one of the things you said that surprised you in terms of feeding people's willingness to support Trump was hostility and hatred of the left. It had left some hard feelings in its wake. People stop you on the street sometimes and say, hey; they really like your material. Sarah? Had people like Alyssa not been protecting him from his worst impulses, might there have been 17 Republicans who've had the courage to vote to impeach him the second time so we would've been done with him? He was previously political director for Republican Voters Against Trump and communications director for Jeb Bush 2016. And so you would think that he would be mad at me, but no. Like, is it worth the extra five bucks to use the word Hussein in Barack's middle name? [2][5][6] During the campaign, Miller drew notice as a "vocal critic" of Donald Trump. He has 297.7k followers on his official Twitter account @Timodc. DAVIES: Tim Miller is a former Republican communications staffer who's now an analyst for MSNBC and a writer-at-large for thebulwark.com. And we're still dealing with Donald Trump in 2022, right? I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR. I have a daughter now. Tim Miller isThe Bulwarks writer-at-large and the author of the best-selling bookWhy We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell. He's a former Republican communications staffer. I think in national security, obviously, I give H.R. He went to George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs to earn a BA and a major in Political Science. He'll be back to talk more after this short break. And that's why I want to get you on here and share this story with us. [25], In 2000 Miller graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, and in 2004 he graduated from George Washington University with a BA in political science. Or do you Beg to Differ? But, you know, those are all some rather small-ball changes to some very large challenges. . And I was, you know, kind of favor-trading with them. Until he stepped down in December 2016 after 23 years, Sykes was one of Wisconsins top-rated and most influential conservative talk show hosts. Kim Wehle is a contributor toThe Bulwark. Is He Married? You know, I read about the 2012 autopsy. An updated paperback edition was released in October, 2018. He is a former chairman of Common Cause and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Miller's only child was born on January 3, 2018. . I remember watching this and thinking - you might imagine someone watching that and saying, oh, cool. [4][12], Miller has been characterized as a Never Trumper. He is a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association. Previously, she served as a speechwriter to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and communications director to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. [14] In November 2020, Miller announced he had left the Republican Party. Tim Miller began his political career in 2004 after graduating from university. ", "The 10 Republicans who hate Donald Trump the most", "Joe Scarborough: How Can I Return to a Republican Party That Stayed Silent While Trump 'Shredded Constitutional Norms? Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In a way, they were taking advantage of you to gain respectability, right? She is also director of Republicans for Voting Rights. In 2015, Miller was hired by former Florida Gov. And I would send them back. Show your support with Bulwark merchandise. But to say that would be against the rules of the game. That was something that I did regularly. And so I think that there are legitimate grievances that these communities have that we didn't even try to address. The couple have been open about their marriage and even shared wedding photos. And they would put it up. Sykes serves as the president of Defending Democracy Together Institute, sits on the advisory board of the Democracy Fund, and is a member of the board of Stand Up Republic. Tim Miller is currently an on-air analyst for MSNBC and a writer at large for The Bulwark, a website launched in 2018 which features news and opinion from a center-right perspective. Excited that @BulwarkOnline has the #1 Florida Man - Biden's man in Duval @steveschale - dissecting what went wrong for Democrats in the Sunshine State. A political consultant, Tom is also a writer, mainly known for his involvement in Anti-Trump advocacy. Her campaigns problems perfectly mirror Meatball Rons. And so the fact that somebody could come in and actually offer them a message that resonated with their lives and their grievances and their resentments shouldn't have been surprising. He has volunteered in various positions in politics. [17] It was noted during the 2014 United States elections for deploying "trackers" to follow Democratic elected officials around Capitol Hill. Its safe to say that his approximate net worth fluctuates between $5 million and $10 million. This organization sponsored TV and internet advertisements featuring lifelong Republicans explaining their decision to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden instead of Donald Trump. McMaster, people keeping Trump from pushing the button a pass. MSNBC's political analyst is making news in public; find more on him here. DAVIES: Let's take another break here. November 18, 2022 2:53 pm. JVL? Miller is Speaker and belongs to the Republican Party. And so we could get their articles on the Drudge Report and which, you know, would skyrocket their traffic and make them want to deal with us more. Plus: The rubber band theory of politics. I worked for a group called Republican Voters Against Trump, where we recruited people to make videos opposing Donald Trump. Interns that are coming into Washington get a little starstruck. Tim has taken over the Triad this morning with a report from on the ground in Arizona. He has three children, and two grandchildren. Download Episode. You would get to decide who you would leak that to. Days from Crashing into the Debt Ceiling? And what that entails was, you know, basically always focusing the research, the opposition research, and the tracking on Democrats even, like you said at times, when the candidate was more appealing. How do you sleep at night? What are my - what are my in-laws going to think about me? Let me reintroduce you. During an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Tim Miller a former deputy communications director for the RNC, asked Lake if it's time for Republicans to change the strategy and appeal to more moderate voters, given "we've lost three straight elections." But a lot of your job involved taking down other moderates who would have been rivals to your candidates. I mean, would it sound like, in some cases, people there made a difference? And the consensus was that that guy was the jerk. You know, you write - and I'll just quote this 'cause I think it's put very well. Sad! And so when my editor said, give me a final chapter that tells us - you know, that lifts people up a little bit, I just - I didn't feel like I had one to write that met the challenge. [3] After the primary, Miller joined the Republican National Committee as its liaison to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. Tyler Jameson is the spouse who is a well-known TV personality. Tim Miller Writer-at-Large Tens of thousands of paid subscribers Timodc Bulwark+ By The Bulwark Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. Tell us a little bit about how you made that relationship work for you. An updated paperback edition was released in October, 2018. And he said, OK, well, then what are we - then what are you doing? And he was a guy that you were in sync with. [22] The book details Miller's political career, and analyzes the rise of Trump and the motivations of Republican politicians who remained firmly loyal to the MAGA movement. The work ofThe Bulwarkis made sustainable by ourBulwark+members. I found Daynabelle Anderson, who lost her 19-year-old son three years agoand decided to speak to him via daily letters. This was what I specialized in, was opposition research and working the media to deliver a negative message about our opponents. I was going to bring it up anyway, I mean, the fact that you were gay and closeted for a long time while you were Republican operative. MILLER: Here's the strange part about our two-party system, right? I mean, did it matter if it was true? I think I called him a grown-up Ralph Wiggum that you wouldn't even believe was real. I was like, I don't like paper straws, either, but voting for Donald Trump over it? He holds a B.S. The Stories We Tell Ourselves. And people can look at the record and form their own opinions. I received a phone call after the book came out from one of the Breitbart reporters who I had very harsh words for. We're speaking with Tim Miller. Jim Swift is a senior editor atThe Bulwark. This is FRESH AIR. MILLER: You know, well, here's what I - just before we did this interview, Dave, my old organization - we've been talking about America Rising - they fired their chairman because he had the gall to help Liz Cheney's campaign. These are counterfactuals. Breitbart speaks with Jeb Bush, exclamation point. TimoGOP 1995-2020. Or borrow it from a friend. And I think that we includes basically everyone who was involved in Republican campaigns during the time in which I came of age politically. I feel bad for him. It's very clearly true. MILLER: Yes. And, you know, the 23-year-olds who are writing these texts don't really believe that the election was stolen, but they are now in an even, you know, exaggerated version of that same culture where speaking up and saying, I don't know if we should send this text, is a sign you don't get it. Jameson currently serves as Vice President of Government Relations at Impossible Foods. Who is always right? Be mad that there's a caravan coming across the border, you know, rather than addressing what was happening in their lives. Sykes has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time.com, USA Today, National Review, The New York Review of Books, the New York Daily News, and other national publications. He later served as communications director for Bushs presidential campaign. You know, we were talking about the work of political consultants. And I - you know, he's kind of a little aggressive about it. Enjoy! All rights reserved. They get that the point of the game is to win. And so some of the people who were upset with him had reached out to intermediaries, to say, hey; I'm willing to talk to the press. But what we didn't even think about, what we didn't even talk about - I went back and read all of the emails. We weren't even thinking about the real problems of these white, working-class voters. Before serving as editor-in-chief of the film siteRebeller, he was the executive editor of and film critic forThe Washington Free Beacon. You know, I'm used to the fact that, you know, almost any political message is distorted in some way. Is she right? Tim Miller is an American personality, political consultant, and writer. DAVIES: After the defeat of 2012, you assembled great minds, yours among them, to figure out how the Republican Party can change and start winning, right? So us at the RNC - I would have to approve it. He was a communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, and subsequently became an outspoken Republican critic of former U.S. president Donald Trump . Yeah. If a liberal, you know, kind of Hollywood movie had written about him, it would have - it would seem too cliche, you know, for them - for him to be a real person. That seems like a useful change. Due to his mysterious nature, no identity details of Millers family members are available on the internet. We're giving them a little bit more credibility, you know? House Oversight Chair James Comer implies his informant might have been killed by the Bidens. DeSantis' political messaging "hews very closely to the concerns of conservative social media users and podcast hosts," said Tim Miller, a former Republican operative who worked on Jeb Bush . And I would make edits that were much stronger, I guess, with my predecessor. Like that was the story that they told themselves to justify going in. From 1985 to 1993, Kristol served as chief of staff to Education Secretary William Bennett in the Reagan Administration and as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle in the George H. W. Bush administration. Tim Miller Nov 8, 2022 99 203 Hey fam: JVL here. [13] He was included by The Washington Post on a list of Republicans "who hate Donald Trump the most". But in short, my view is that anybody who really thought they went in to, quote-unquote, "save the country" - there was this group called the Committee to Save America, you know, which was, you know, John Kelly et al. Tell us about this site, what it hoped to do. You worked for John McCain in 2008, Jeb Bush in 2016, and for a time in the 2012 cycle, for Jon Huntsman. Accuracy and availability may vary. Benjamin Parker is a senior editor at The Bulwark. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. I mean, this - our political discourse has been contaminated, and I was one of the ones contaminating it for generations now. And a lot of the reasons that you give are things that we would expect - I mean, power, ambition, access to the game, fame, all that stuff. Whichever side you choose, well be back tomorrow, and well do this all over again. And then, you know, they might tinker with it a little bit, but they would put it up on their site. So I was incentivized to do that even though a lot of times, I was working with people that were kind of unsavory, where the other material on the website - maybe not what I had sent, but the other material on the website was outrageous. She can be reached at[emailprotected]. All Rights Reserved. In his series of Not My Party videos, Tim Miller a Never Trump conservative and former Republican who supported now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 election has offered countless examples . He ends up deciding not to run because of that. You might remember Olivia Troye, Elizabeth Neumann. And that was the mindset. DAVIES: Right. That guy was right. [18], Following the 2016 United States presidential election, Miller joined Definers Public Affairs, an opposition research-styled consulting firm working for corporate clients. Back in the '90s, you know, they might listen to Rush, but they'd see, you know, Tom Brokaw at night. That section of the book is based on interviews he conducted with many Republicans including friends and former colleagues. [7] Following a 2016 South Carolina Republican primary debate, Miller followed Trump around the spin room heckling him until Miller was "hip-checked" by Trump campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski. [26][27] In a review for The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai called the book "darkly funny" and praised Miller's insights into the inner workings of the Republican Party and the Washington D.C. political scene. Slack Tide by Matt Labash Paid subscriber Afternoon Tea Free subscriber Apricitas Economics Free subscriber Border-Stalkers Free subscriber Calm Down More people should have said, Tim, why are you working against the most important thing in your life? But they would see that as this huge win. All of a sudden, you know, people like Sean Spicer, who I write about, are getting asked for selfies all the time on the street by Trump supporters. His new book is "Why We Did It: A Travelogue From The Republican Road To Hell." That said, what do we do? I found when I read this book, I learned things I didn't know about how the system work and especially about how the Republican media world evolved. Or, you know, people want to follow your thoughts on social media. And in the book, she gives you a list of things that she said she did inside which made a difference - directly talk the president out of firing Mark Esper twice, convinced him not to use racist birther attack on Kamala Harris when others pushed for it, pushed him not to replace Dr. Birx with Scott Atlas on the COVID task force. And then I would see that as a win because the Breitbart readers would finally see something nice about Jeb Bush for the first time in ever. BeforeTWS, he worked for five years for members of the House and Senate as a tax staffer, working for Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) on Ways and Means Committee matters and Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on Finance Committee matters. (SOUNDBITE OF ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ'S "VEINTE ANOS (TWENTY YEARS)"), DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And I think that all of this set the stage for Trump's rise. Our guest today, Tim Miller, is a former Republican political operative whose new bestselling book takes a hard look at the Republican Party's embrace of Donald Trump and his own role in events that took the party down that road. And I think that's interesting. He was afounder ofThe Weekly Standard, and is a regular guest on leading political commentary shows. He was co-editor of the National Review College Guide. Tim Miller, welcome to FRESH AIR. On his Instagram account @tjameson he shares a post First day of school! Show your support with Bulwark merchandise. Founded in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, Charlie Sykes, and Bill Kristol,The Bulwarkfocuses on political analysis and reporting without partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices. Learn how your comment data is processed. who said they were - you know, we need responsible people in here. Tim Miller: Normal v Crazy. They'd say, if you do an interview with us where you say you want to build the wall or whatever, you know, we'll give you glowing coverage. Instead of guessing about what's going to happen today, he has some lessons that Democrats should already be learning from the Hobbs and Lake campaigns. It's a truth that Dan Crenshaw, of all people, aptly observed: Any time we face a "hardship," we tell ourselves a story to account for our actions. Let me reintroduce you. What she says, Tim, is, you know, your argument that you should that - the responsible people should not have gone in is essentially a let it burn argument, that, you know, if that's what people voted for, then let's get the worst government that Donald Trump can give us, and people will see what it's really made of, and we'll come to a reckoning sooner. And a lot of people - Washington is a town filled with people who were very high achieving, you know, young college, high school students, but who probably weren't very cool, probably were not very popular. If you're on TV, you can get Twitter famous. Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod. You could just ghostwrite me the perfect article, you know, on this website that Republican primary readers read? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. You know, a lot of Republicans who have denounced Donald Trump eventually came around to embrace him. 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