Claus von Stauffenberg had enough of Hitler's raging madness. Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus had enough of Julius Cesar's transforming the Republic into an Empire. Oftentimes in history, senior people around a dictator know when their ties to the criminal in power ought to be severed. They usually are a minority, because most witnesses and accomplices with the madness are cowards who choose to save their hide rather than confront the mad man.
Miles Bruner has had enough of Trump's senile autocratic dementia. He's done fundraising for him and his Republican MAGA herd of fearful sycophants.
A Republican fundraising star is leaving the party, saying he has finally had enough of the GOP's servile appeasement of Donald Trump. Miles Bruner was a senior fundraiser for the Republican digital fundraising firm Campaign Solutions. He just accounced in a piece in The Bulwark that he is quitting the party and urged others to do the same to save the future of the country.
“Since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican Party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last. 100 years,” Bruner said.
“For 10 years, the GOP has waged an unrelenting war on our civic institutions, the separation of powers, the foundation of the rule of law, and the very nature of truth itself. While Trump and his supporters in Congress have been the driving force behind the right’s descent into despotism, it would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms.”
“It was routine to publish content that pushed election fraud conspiracies, stoked anti-immigrant sentiment, and sowed distrust in our institutions,” he said in his piece in The Bulwark.
He became disillusioned while working for moderate California State Senator Janet Nguyen. Bruner said he tried to distance Nguyen from Trump during the 2016 campaign and hoped that Trump’s “very fine people” response to the deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 would provide the perfect opportunity to break away.
However, Nguyen was unhappy when her team released a statement describing Heather Heyer—the woman struck and killed by a white supremacist during a demonstration opposing the neo-Nazis—as an American hero. She had received backlash from Trump’s MAGA base and fearfully retreated from taking a principled position
“The staff stressed to her that Heyer had indeed been killed by a terrorist for protesting Nazis in her city. But that didn’t matter; the text was changed, and any further condemnations of Trump or alt-right activities occurring in our district would stop,” Bruner wrote. “It was the first time I should have drawn the line and said I quit. But, again, I stayed.”
Bruner said that during his time in the GOP, he “rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party.” What finally broke the camel's back was the “rightward lurch” of the Supreme Court and “the lengths to which the right was willing to go to undermine established legal precedents and access to reproductive rights.”
Bruner has now officially cut ties as Trump’s second term enters its 10th month.
“I know the thought of walking away from your career and your familiar social network is terrifying. I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction,” he wrote. “If you believe in this country, now is the time to refuse to ferry its destruction for a tainted livelihood. Take a stand. Speak out. Show your pride as an American who believes in the Constitution and the values we grew up with.”
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