On Jan. 6, 2020, an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to dismantle the transfer of power to the current president, Joe Biden.
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"We do need to have a peaceful transfer of power, it's the way we have always done it," Tim Miller, a former Republican, and writer-at-large for The Bulwark, told KCBS Radio's "Bay Current" on Thursday. "The fact that no one stood up to Trump until after he already lost, was the final straw for me. I don't think anyone was expecting that our Capitol would be stormed, but I knew that something bad was going to happen."
Miller, who announced his resignation from the Republican Party one month after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, commented that the rise in election fraud conspiracies prompted his decision to leave the GOP.
"Of course, it was going to end like that. History is contingent," Miller added. "But choices could have been made differently. If enough people had said 'enough, this is over' then I don't think it would have had the momentum. That is our big lesson from this."
Miller added that Trump voters wanted this friction between the parties and that politicians like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell weren't outraged enough to dissuade this behavior in the future.
"At The Bulwark, we saw clearly that voters want this chaos, they want the Coastal elites punished," Miller said. "After it happened, those politicians are still servants to the mob. Their voters are going to want them to go along with this. If you look at the Republicans running for lower offices, they are still fully on board with the coup."
To understand the spectrum of conservative voices speaking on the 2020 Jan. 6 Insurrection, visit Tim Miller's writer's biography.
