Hands up: Who actually cares about anything Miles Taylor has to say? If you don’t remember him, he, as “Anonymous,” published an op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the Trump administration; this was a big deal because “Anonymous” was billed as a “senior-level official.” CNN’s Chris Cillizza guess that the author could have been Vice President Mike Pence, but it turned out to be Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security — hardly a “senior-level official.”
We most recently heard from Taylor on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” where he claimed that MAGA Republicans “want to kill me.”
Taylor is putting his life on the line again in a piece for NBC News in which he claims he’s left the Republican Party, which we thought he’d done a long time ago. Apparently, the mass shooting in Buffalo was the last straw.
I'm done.
I no longer believe the Republican Party can be saved. The vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals.
I'm quitting the GOP. And I hope more do the same.
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) May 17, 2022
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) May 18, 2022
Taylor lays out his case against the GOP, although he does think Rep. Liz Cheney, a “rock-ribbed conservative,” is still pretty cool.
The vitriolic GOP rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals, and I don’t say that lightly.
After more than a decade in counterterrorism, it’s clear to me that my party is mainstreaming conspiracy theories that are fueling a statistical spike in political intimidation, attitudes toward violence and the specter of domestic terrorism that we witnessed this weekend in New York.
This isn’t a partisan broadside. It’s a public safety warning. The Buffalo shooter was apparently radicalized by racist viewpoints that many Republicans espouse, and that danger can’t be tolerated any longer.
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Again, never mind that we all saw the shooter’s manifesto, and he wasn’t inspired by the GOP or Tucker Carlson or Fox News.
“More than a decade in counterterrorism” — OK, buddy.
We don’t care
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 17, 2022
Who are you?
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) May 18, 2022
Who are you? Should we know?
— Jesse Pinkman’s Roomba (@corrcomm) May 19, 2022
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 17, 2022
What does the Republican Party have to do with Buffalo, besides nothing. This low life murderer wasn’t a Republican. Keep trying to divide the country… MOST people are getting sick of it
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) May 18, 2022
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 18, 2022
Literally nobody cares.
Good fucking riddance.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 17, 2022
Yes, the Democratic Party is putting on a real show for America right now and how great things are going with them in control…..🤦♂️
— Cyclones/WhiteSox FAN (@jmccullo) May 18, 2022
So communism is a better way, no thanks
— borderpatrl (@BorderpatrlJody) May 18, 2022
Good luck on the Democratic plantation
— American Nightmare 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@TexasRebelMan) May 18, 2022
A nobody trying to make a name for himself by being another Republican to turn on his party … meh.
— ULTRA🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 17, 2022
Maybe The Lincoln Project will take him in … how old is he again?
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Miles ‘Anonymous’ Taylor tells Nicolle Wallace that MAGA Republicans ‘want to kill me’ https://t.co/6YORnREt7z
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 5, 2022
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