Quite by accident I learned that today Mr. Tim Miller of The Bulwark and author of the best-selling "Why We Did It" will be appearing at the Commonwealth Club today in order to "be in conversation with "Pod Save America" co-host Dan Pfeiffer.
Here is the EventBrite announcement in its entirety. See if you can spot what has been hilariously omitted from Tim Miller's bio. What should have been right between the second and third full paragraphs.
Bestselling author & political analyst Tim Miller gives the inside story of the GOP's takeover by Trump and Trumpism.
About this event
From 2000 to 2022, one thing is certain: What it means to be Republican has changed. To former Republican political consultant Tim Miller, the GOP started down a path to disaster in the early 2000s. Lack of strategic decision making within the Republican Party at that time set the stage for Donald Trump to take over the party Miller once loved. He now seeks to answer a simple question: “Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?”
Tim Miller is an author, activist and consultant who has held many positions within Republican campaigns. He has served as co-founder and political director for the advocacy group Republican Voters Against Trump and director of communications for Jed Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. During his time in the Republican Party, he served in a variety of positions, including co-founder and executive director of the opposition research firm America Rising and “forensic analyst” for Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign.
In his New York Times bestselling new book Why We Did It, Miller cuts through the past two decades of political shifts, compromises and decisions made by the GOP that he says set it on a collision course with Trumpism and led to the events of January 6. Giving an honest look at his own work in the Republican Party, Miller uses raw interviews, forgotten history and personal accounts in a biting, darkly satirical retelling of the transformation of the GOP, leading up to his eventual departure from the party in November 2020.
Join us as Miller recounts the roadmap of how we got here, and what the story of one of the greatest party shifts in American history can tell us about the future of the nation. He will be in conversation with "Pod Save America" co-host Dan Pfeiffer.
Did you figure it out?
The mystery is unlocked here, "Your Never-Trump Friends Really Appreciate You Letting Them Crash On Your Liberal Sofa During These Difficult Times".
This post is not intended as a critique of Tim Miller's book, which I have not read yet but understand is quite good and doesn't pull many punches.
Instead, take this as a flyover country blogger and podcaster's unmpteenth observation of how deeply inbred and insular the world of elite political puditting is among our coastal Liberal and Conservative elites.
4 comments:
Wonderful find! Tim Miller shitting in his own nest was tolerable to the "Pod Save" crew--but when he shit in their nest . . . well, that just ain't cool. "Former Republican shit-heel" Tim Miller and "former Republican Congressman" David Jolly seem to be on Nicole Wallace's speed dial--because those Republican turds aren't going polish themselves. Just ask Steve Schmidt. Or Rick Wilson. Or...
It is not only the , "Never Trumpers".
It is the
always Trumpeteeers forevers".
A 39 year old Trumpteteer telling me how things were so much better in the 1950's
He is 29 yrs of age. Do the math. The FOX wax built up in his ears couldn't hear when I explained to him that I was there through most of the 50's and it was n0t what his GOP and Church pastor might have told him.
If he was in the 1950's he would not have the internet, the IPhone, nor a cell phone. He would have to have coins to put into a phone to call out. He was born in a air conditioned hospital. Taken home to an air conditioned house oly knowing cool in the summer heat. If his hair got longer than a few inches he would have been harassedd. There was the Nuclear war at most any moment and at school they instructed you to get under your desk to protect you from a Nuke strike. Or under your desk to account for the ashes left from what was your body.
The Fifties had a lot of that I did not appreciate and happy tp leave it in the past.
That returning to it is not quite like Back to the Future, the movie.
So do not come here to nap on my couch in my air-conditioning after telling me what I lived through was so great.
Sort of the political version of , Get off of my lawn...........
1980s scifi movies, beat my score of 32/33
I was watching a youtube review of a 5 hour documentary about said movies, and paused at a list of movies they covered. I saw all of them except one. Here's the list:
https://i.imgur.com/bJULQ2c.png
or you can see it here at 8m50s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkAsp2ctK8M
obligatory joke:
Q: How many ears does Captain Kirk have?
A: Three. A left ear, a right ear, and a final, front ear.
"When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection." - Bertrand Russell
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