Overview
- In a column published Monday in The Bulwark, Miles Bruner announced he was leaving the Republican Party and resigning from his role at digital fundraising firm Campaign Solutions.
- Bruner wrote that under President Donald Trump the GOP has become an “increasingly corrupt” cult of personality that threatens democratic norms.
- He described remaining in GOP roles through Charlottesville, the January 6 attack, Trump’s rhetoric about migrants, and what he called failures in pandemic leadership before concluding he could no longer stay.
- Bruner said attempts to start a family changed his stance on abortion, and he cited rightward Supreme Court rulings on reproductive rights as a personal turning point.
- Urging others to act on their doubts, he called on consultants and aides to “take a stand,” leave the party, and “refuse to ferry its destruction for a tainted livelihood.”