'Not how life works': Ex-GOP strategist scoffs at MAGA demands for respect and unification

Supporters of Donald Trump are demanding that the country come together after an election where their candidate and surrogates trashed voters on the other side.

Tim Miller from The Bulwark said on a Monday podcast that he saw Vivek Ramaswamy on ABC's "This Week" over the weekend, where he was demanding "respect" from the left.

"It's time to unite the country, and libs don't need to be mean to them anymore," Miller said in characterizing Ramaswamy's remarks.

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"There's something you notice there: the demand that people who did not vote for Donald Trump respect people that did," Miller continued. "What is missing, though, is any effort to earn that respect. It's a very one-way sort of thing."

He noted that Trump ran a campaign that demonizes transgender folks, saying, "gender insanity is being pushed on our children," and it's an "act of child abuse."

Miller also recalled Trump demonizing Haitians, accusing them of abducting and eating people's pets.

Trump also called Democrats the "enemy from within," attacked them as "garbage," "trash," "idiots," "stupid," and "low IQ."

One of Donald Trump's incoming appointees, Mike Davis said on X after the election, “I want to drag their dead political bodies,” presumably referring to Democrats, “through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall. (Legally, politically, and financially, of course.)”

"Then when it's over, afterward, you have to be like, 'Hey, I appreciate you. Thank you so much for calling me garbage and the enemy of the people and making up lies about how I eat pets,'" said Miller. "'I respect you so much. I would love to have a meal with you right now.'"

He noted, "That's not how life works."

Miller told viewers that generally, the person who issues the insults and takes power is the one who offers the olive branch and takes responsibility for what was said. It would also be incumbent upon Trump to pledge to govern for everyone and welcome the other party into the fold.

That didn't happen in 2017, however.

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