Tim Miller is a political consultant and writer for The Bulwark. He was communications director for Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign and was the Republican National Committee's liaison to Mitty Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
Tim is a supremely gifted storyteller who writes with brutal
honesty and stylish gallows humor about the GOP’s toxic mix of
opportunists, joy riders, and grifters who enabled Donald Trump’s
rise and guaranteed his enduring grip on the Republican Party. Tim
takes a scalpel to the malignant tumor smothering American
democracy by dissecting his own friends and onetime colleagues. The
most valuable contribution of Tim’s book may be the anthropological
examination of just how little separates a ‘normal’ Republican from
an activist working to overthrow a free and fair presidential
election. — Nicolle Wallace
Tim’s smart and witty takes on the current madness of our political
times has been my balm of Gilead. In this book, Tim examines what
makes some people abandon their principles to align with the
current center of power and what makes others hold fast to their
convictions in spite of finding themselves suddenly on the outs. As
a former Republican partisan, Tim breaks it all down in precise
bombs of truth and keen insight into some of the more awful truths
of human nature when it comes to the allure of power. — Jane
Lynch
Mea culpa and tell-all, Tim Miller’s Why We Did It reveals why and
how a generation of Republican politicos bent the knee to a
president so many of them privately feared and despised. — David
Frum
From any dark experience springs something hopeful and good. In the
Trump years, that bright side has been Tim and his compatriots who
took up arms to fight the MAGA scourge. Before this book, I
understood why the crazies and kooks went along with Trump, but now
I fully grasp why smart, supposedly ‘normal’ Republicans did, too.
Tim’s observations are clear-eyed, wise, brutally honest, and
darkly hilarious. Everyone should read this book, especially fellow
Democrats who want to better understand our political foes. — James
Carville
When the history of this era is written, the dominant question will
likely be, How did this happen? Tim Miller’s Why We Did It offers a
crucial insider’s answer to that question. It’s a must-read report
from the belly of the beast detailing how the unimaginable becomes
inevitable. Looking back at a career in politics and being
horrified at what you were part of is not the most fun exercise in
life. Tim examines his role with clear honesty, sadness, and an
amusing sense of the absurd. This is a big, important book. Read
it. — Stuart Stevens
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