An Open Letter (apparently) To Tim Miller
By: Terry Trueman
Tags: Writing, Politics, Letters, Courage, Honesty

An Open Letter (apparently) To Tim Miller

As a writer and a political junkie, trying to kick the habit, I just wrote this and decided it took too much effort and time for just Tim to read it . . . sorry Tim . . . (all pics added to original text-only, for Medium posting) Terry Trueman Follow Nov 23, 2020 · 3 min read

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Good morning Tim,

I’m not sure what to write here. I just finished your piece in this morning’s (or maybe it was yesterday’s) Bulwark Goodbye To All That (The Triad (thebulwark.com) and I wanted to tell you how good I think it is. How gutsy you are to have written it with such honesty and directness and what a great ring of truth it has. I’ve admired many other writings from you here, and you are, along with Charlie Sykes (who I used to HATE) and JVL, a fine group of writers and thinkers. This means that I should sign-up for the Bulwark and put my $ where my good intentions are, BUT (why is there always a “BUT” coming after something someone says that feels too good to be true, in this case, even if I am the only one feeling that, sensing that Goodbye To All That — The Triad (thebulwark.com)obnoxious thing).

But . . .

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Having been raised in a middle-class family (very slightly upper-middle-class for a while, then dropping down a bit but still white-collar) by GOP loving parents, enough to where when JFK was shot in 1963 and I was a sophomore in H.S., I couldn’t understand my parents, especially my mother’s, tears and angst. After all, we’d been Nixon all the way. My father was even friends and co-conspirators in John Birch related bullshit in the Seattle area with John Ehrlichman. I was rabidly pro-Goldwater in 1964.

And then I went to college and Vietnam came along and now . . . you’re asking me, and indeed arguing passionately and convincingly, that I should pay $$ to listen to lifelong “conservatives” when the party you so recently have departed is filled with radical nuts who call themselves conservatives. For now, it’s a bridge too far.

But obviously, I’m still reading you and still strongly attracted to your journey (pardon the cliché, please) and thus, I may get there yet.

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Image from author’s personal pics of re-designed MAGA hat

This got long-winded. Sorry, but since I type with two fingers (including for many years, novels, albeit short ones I admit, for a living) I can’t go back and shorten anything I’ve said.

I’ll finish where I started. I’m not sure why I’m writing to you, but it’s likely because when I read real stuff, stuff that clearly comes from the heart and soul of an honest person, laying/putting yourself out there, it makes me proud of being a human, and recently, there hasn’t been nearly enough of that going on in my life.

Sincerely,

Terry Trueman

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