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Why We Did It
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.
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Reviews
Witty, engaging…but also depressing look inside the lives of the enablers in Trump’s orbit…the sane ones, anyway. Couldn’t put it down.
By LV118002
This book provided answers to questions I have had since before 2015. Why was the Republican Party acting in the way that it was? This book did not give me an exhaustive answer, but it helped my understanding.
By DHT Knick
Looking into the minds of the people profiled here alerts a larger reckoning with the function of the human psyche. Tim has taken a first step, but it will be generations before there's clarity on why people today behave the way they do, if there ever even can be answers.
By Avec La Tempete
I think I finally understand the motivations of those who live in Trumpworld now
By foodnerd
An intimate look at one man’s quest for political truth. Absorbing
By calsharpie