Miles Taylor
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458 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 May
Miles Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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then experiencing its consequences and waking up what seems a little too late but again it's never too late to do the right thing i mean you may suffer extraordinary consequences uh in doing it but i mean you know i i was just finishing a a book about the the early years of the roman empire just at the end of the republic as the republic fell
It's not like there was just one or two voices sounding the alarm.
I mean, it was a cacophony of warnings, and yet they still barreled forward towards Caesar's reign and the destruction of the world's really early experiment in human freedom.
This happens.
What you tend to see, Jennifer, is that people at the end of the day
It's not even death that they fear the most, it's being kicked out of their tribe.
And I had a conversation years ago with my buddy Adam Kinzinger about this.
We were down in Savannah, Georgia, and we've all had this conversation a million times over coffees and barbecues.
But I said to Adam, why are these friends of ours, these Republican members of Congress and other people that I had served with in the administration before I quit,
why are they still staying silent?
And at the time, I had speculated it's because they saw the death threats Adam and I were facing.
His newborn baby at that time was being threatened.
I had had to leave my home, my job.
I had an armed security detail because of the threats.
It got really, really ugly.
And Adam said, you know,
I don't even think it's the death threats.
I think they've built their lives and their identities so much around this tribe, this Republican tribe, that they worry that if they publicly break with it, that's it.
Their future prospects, their career, their life, everything, their internal identity is destroyed.
And I talk about this sometimes when I speak to student groups, but it made me think of a Jerry Seinfeld joke.
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