Why We Did It
A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
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Tim Miller
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?
As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see. In a bracingly honest reflection on both his own past work for the Republican Party and the contortions of his former peers in the GOP establishment, Miller draws a straight line between the actions of the 2000s GOP to the Republican political class's Trumpian takeover, including the horrors of January 6th.
From ruminations on the mental jujitsu that allowed him as a gay man to justify becoming a hitman for homophobes, to astonishingly raw interviews with former colleagues who jumped on the Trump Train, Miller diagrams the flattering and delusional stories GOP operatives tell themselves so they can sleep at night. With a humorous touch he reveals Reince Priebus' neediness, Sean Spicer's desperation, Elise Stefanik and Chris Christie’s raw ambition, and his close friends’ submission to a MAGA psychosis.
Why We Did It is a vital, darkly satirical warning that all the narcissistic justifications that got us to this place still thrive within the Republican party, which means they will continue to make the same mistakes and political calculations that got us here, with disastrous consequences for the nation.
©2022 Tim Miller (P)2022 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...
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This book is more of the same, in a good way. As a former GOP operative/researcher/hatchet man, Tim knows a ton of colleagues who never broke away from Trump and wants to know why. He starts by laying out the timeline of how he did it, his path of disillusionment with "the game" and the people he worked for competing with his ability to compartmentalize and desire to keep doing the thing he'd always known. After laying out his own reasons, he moves on to categorize the different reasons why others stayed on and gives examples of each. For him, it's viscerally personal; he knows all of these people to various degrees and gives anecdotes that really flesh out the character that he ascribes to them.
The book is well-written and tightly-paced. Tim is funny in both wordplay and blunt honesty. If it weren't an audiobook, I'd include some quotes; I really need to go back and write down some of the one-liners and turns of phrase. I also found this book very moving, particularly the vignettes about being an in (and then out-of-the-closet) gay man whose work was to publicly speak against his own desires and the interactions with some of the more sympathetic characters in the book.
My only complaint (which could also be seen as a good thing) was that it left me wanting more. It starts and ends with him reconnecting with one of his erstwhile connections, and the ending in particular is both sad and abrupt. Not everyone makes it out, and no one really does unscathed. But in some ways, that ending is the honest one, and this book was nothing if not honest and vulnerable.
Funny, honest, vulnerable. Left me wanting more
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This year’s political must read
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Why Trump Is Here To Stay
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Great content and style
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Great listen, but still wish Tim would've read it.
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Amazing!
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The reading was very good and expressive, but it would have been even better to hear it in the author’s own voice.
Searching for a soul and a conscience among GOP professionals in the age of Trump
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Brutal and funny!
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Sad to understand the reasoning behind people sticking around to prop up the madman.
THANK YOU MR MILLER❤️
Great and sad at the same time
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Hard to hear but worth the listen
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