Tim Miller

I disagree obviously with everything that Elon Musk and Donald Trump have done to USIP and they're taking over the building and sticking Donald Trump's name on it.

But I'm not signing any petition that's not part of helping to build a new narrative around what these institutions actually mean in the world and what they mean for the American people.

I don't want to restore us to what we had before because these things were not exactly working as well as they should have.

and delivering in the way, in the manner that we expect with our tax dollars and with our values.

So let's figure out the new common story that we're telling here, helping folks appreciate what these investments, what these partnerships mean, how they benefit directly from them, how we don't get through the pandemic crisis, for instance, if not for the enormous investments that we had made in helping to create

a scaffolding around global health institutions over the last 20 years that finally benefited Americans directly in that moment.

We've got to tell the story better.

And then I'm going to be ready to fight for those institutions to be

and rebuilt.

It's not impossible.

I'll tell you, I remember people like me, people like me who were critical of conservatives who came into the USAID space, the PEPFAR space, who were using the language of charity and the framework of charity instead of the framework of a partnership between

That we thought was necessary.

I found some of it to be a little patronizing, a little condescending.

But you know what?

I'd rather have that frame than no frame whatsoever and no investment whatsoever and no partnership whatsoever.

So I'm going to have to figure out if I if I'm an Africanist, the way that I am an Americanist, I got to figure out how I have conversations with conservative ministers and their congregations and their social groups.

Health and help groups to figure out how we partner better in the Caribbean, in Latin America, in sub-Saharan Africa, in ways that will benefit folks who are in those countries, but Americans themselves.

Man.

I'm not giving up on it.

I could do a whole nother hour on that.