Tim Miller > Quotes

“A crazy place in my mind laughs to keep the world and my heart from breaking in two.”
― Tim Miller, Shirts and Skin

“Donald Trump was the snake. Everyone knew he was the snake. He told us he was the snake. Yet when the snake offered his spoiled fruit, these otherwise intelligent people took from the tree and ate it.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“see her or the pain she inflicted, she stirred something in him that made him feel more alive than he had ever felt. So alive, it was worth the cost. Any cost. No. He couldn’t keep doing this. Karen had been”
― Tim Miller, Fifty Shades of Hell

“I felt like everything I ever knew and believed about my country, my career, my colleagues were a lie. The Americans I most despised had taken over the country I loved, bringing almost everyone I had once looked up to along with them.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s about the army of consultants, politicians, and media figures who stood back and stood by as everything they ever fought for was degraded and devalued. The people who privately admitted they recognized all the risks but still climbed aboard for a ride on the SS Trump Hellship that they knew would assuredly sink.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“That” thing Christie and Priebus so desperately needed was their little fix. Getting calls. Feeling important. Remaining relevant. Being In The Mix. Once you’ve already determined that “that” is the objective, the justifications only need to match the desired outcome. And so Little Mixes like Christie and Priebus find themselves wrapped in a pretzel of their own rationalizations.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“One of the more perverse parts of D.C. culture is that many inhabitants turn their weddings into these quasi-networking events, either out of ambition or a lack of real-life friends or both.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“Trump having the ability to trick a mob of rubes into storming the Capitol wasn’t a reason to stop enabling him, it was more evidence that his mob must be obeyed.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“From Harvard to Congress, Stefanik had put her personal ambition first and she wasn’t stopping now. Muslim Bans. Sexual assault apologetics. Attempting to make a former game show host an unelected autocrat by advancing fabricated conspiracies about our elections being fraudulent. She chose to go along with this because it was her path to power. And all indications are that if Trump runs for president again, she will have her eye on the penultimate rung on the striver’s ladder, the vice presidency.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“For example, the RNC for years has been sending out unconscionable mailers to every elderly conservative in America. These letters are made up almost exclusively of hyperbole and ad hominem and conspiracies. They add absolutely zero to the political discourse. But they “work” in the sense that they are effective at keeping the olds upset so that they continue sending in their Social Security money.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“If Crooked Hillary became president, that would be catastrophic because humina humina humina I’m required to say this for my career to survive.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“Caroline has been sucked in by the cult. She is obsessed with Trump and adores him, as incommodious as that may seem. She’s the masochistic follower who feels a compulsion to be tested, abused, and forced to prove they are deserving of the leader’s love over and over and over again. And like many of our parents and grandparents and friends, she’s become unreachable, thanks to consuming petty grievances and an impenetrable media bubble.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s about the army of consultants, politicians, and media figures who stood back and stood by as everything they ever fought for was degraded and devalued. The people who privately admitted they recognized all the risks but still climbed aboard for a ride on the SS Trump Hellship that they knew would assuredly sink.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“If even someone like Chuck, one of the sharts of humanity, eventually saw Trump for the malevolent con man that he is, what does that say about the rest who still excuse him?”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

“We were handing out little key bumps of cocaine, turning our own supporters into addicts, and then telling ourselves there wasn’t a problem. They just need another bump to stay level. And another. And another.”
― Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell