Until 2019, Miles Taylor was the deputy chief of staff for the Homeland Security Department under former President Donald Trump.
Though Taylor, with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, oversaw some of Trump's most inhumane immigration policies during his tenure with the Department, he came out in opposition to Trump ahead of the 2020 election. Notably, Taylor was also the writer of the infamous anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.
In an interview with MSNBC this week, Taylor told host Jason Johnson that the Republican Party—his own party—is a national security threat.
Watch below.
Former Trump Admin. Official: GOP Is Biggest Threat To America’s National Securityyoutu.be
Emphasizing that he'd spent his career in national security, Taylor said:
"[T]he number one national security threat I've ever seen in my life to this country's democracy is the party that I'm in, the Republican Party. If my party retakes the House of Representatives in the next cycle, it's going to become a haunted house. And the ghoul and the specter haunting that house is going to be Donald Trump."
With Trump as its figurehead, the Republican Party has embraced voter suppression laws, dismissed the severity of the Capitol Riots, and peddled absurd disinformation regarding the 2020 election.
Taylor specifically called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's continued deference to Trump, whom he met with this week to discuss strategy for the 2022 midterms.
People agreed with Taylor's assessment.
Yep.— Steve Bird (@Steve Bird) 1626428807
Spot on!— Nedum (@Nedum) 1626430419
Biggest threathttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/miles-taylor-republican-threat_n_60f13006e4b00ef8761ad87a\u00a0\u2026— Volz LJ (@Volz LJ) 1626434602
Taylor isn't the only one calling out the dangers promulgated by the GOP.
BREAKING: authorities have arrested two men who wanted to **blow up Democratic Headquarters** in Sacramento because of the 2020 election.\u00a0\n\nThis is what the Republican Party has encouraged. This is who their supporters are. Domestic terrorists.— Kaivan Shroff (@Kaivan Shroff) 1626443904
The Republican Party deserves everything Donald Trump is doing to them. He is their monster.— Joe Walsh (@Joe Walsh) 1626287455
Pence thought a coup was under way and refused to leave the Capitol. \n\nAt some point we have to replace \u201cJanuary 6th\u201d with \u201cthe Republican Party\u2019s attempted coup\u201d or something like that. Need to better capture the gravity of the moment.https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1415993006134530050\u00a0\u2026— Simon Rosenberg (@Simon Rosenberg) 1626436391
Today\u2019s Republican party has settled on voter suppression as its path to power. Across the country, Republican legislatures have swiveled in unison to restrict voting, as if on command. And guess what? Dark money groups have been caught taking credit for this.— Sheldon Whitehouse (@Sheldon Whitehouse) 1626306060
Every time I watch these clips, I get angry at the fact that the Republican Party defended this.https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1415822738401464323\u00a0\u2026— David Weissman (@David Weissman) 1626397062
The Republican Party and its leader are absolutely deranged.https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1415464394075607041\u00a0\u2026— Parker Molloy (@Parker Molloy) 1626311107
It's unclear if the party's tactics will help it take back some power in the 2022 midterms.
