MAGA DIARIES AUTHOR TINA NGUYEN ON GETTING FIRED BY TUCKER CARLSON, PETER THIEL AND THE LOOMING THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Between 2008 and 2012, Tina Nguyen was a politics-obsessed college student and right-wing activist at Claremont McKenna College. Swept up by conservative rhetoric and promises of paid internships and scholarships, Nguyen was privy to the early days of the movement now known as MAGA.

Now, Nguyen is pulling back the curtain not just on her own story within the alt-right but the full history of the movement, exposing how the right recruits, trains, indoctrinates and builds entire networks of power to bend America to its nativist will. Based on years of dogged reporting and interviews with countless people—from downing margaritas with the first Breitbart writers to pouring over conspiracy theories sent by COVID-19 deniers and even working for Tucker Carlson in the early days of The Daily Caller — The MAGA Diaries paints a shocking picture of a shameless movement that will do anything to triumph over the left, even if it means destroying every mechanism of government this country holds dear.

In The MAGA Diaries, Nguyen blows the whistle on these dangerous extremists for the first time, shining a light on the systematized on-ramp for young Republicans. These are the new leaders of the right, and we must start paying attention.

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0:54.5	about addictions when someone wonders how it happened. The answer is
0:57.9	gradually and all at once. The same can be said for politics. how we fall into the sway of evil people and ideologies.
1:07.2	The brainwashing takes place over years as we are conditioned to believe that thoughts and ideas
1:12.0	proposed are normal somehow and that the people around us are good people.
1:16.4	But all of a sudden, we find ourselves in the midst of something terrible and wonder,
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1:26.6	what happened to my next guest the writer Tina Wynne whose new book the Magadires
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