Nation Writer Manda Moore Spent 11 Months Undercover With MAGA and the Far Right What She Discovered Was Terrifying

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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My next guest spent 11 months undercover with these people. When Amanda Moore lost her job, she decided to go undercover in MAGA land, attending QAnon events and CPAC, hanging with Neo-Nazis and “blood-and-soil fascists,” and palling around with Proud Boys at Harry's Bar in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Riot. But what her new friends didn’t know was that she was often recording them, and the result is a chilling portrait “of what the right looks like from the inside.

Here’s what Amanda said about her journey in the article she wrote for the Nation.

“I was motivated by my belief that the fascist threat to the country was misunderstood by much of the press and far more dangerous than what was being reported. At first, I had planned only to sell the audio from “Stop the Steal rallies to a podcast and write a couple of blog posts. But I found myself wanting to get a behind-the-scenes look at the far-right movement—to go to events from which the press was barred and observe extremists when they felt they were in their “safe space”—so the project grew into something far bigger: a long-term infiltration of the network of young white nationalists in America.”

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0:35.0	Stormy Daniels.
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0:39.0	Please welcome Stormy Daniels. Daniel.
0:47.0	Welcome back, friends and trolls. This is Stormy Daniels and you're listening to Beyond the Norm.
0:51.0	Your weekly trip into the heart of darkness.
0:54.7	Let's fucking go.
0:56.1	Wow.
0:57.4	So last week's episode with cult deprogrammer, Dr Stephen Hassan, really upset the trolls, which just brings me infinite joy. It seems they don't really
1:06.5	like being called brainwashed political zombies. Sorry, not sorry. Well if that pissed you off this week will really get your panties in a twist.
1:16.2	So just do what I do. Might as well take them off now guys. Let me regress for a moment
1:21.3	hover and talk about Maga.
1:23.4	I'm not talking about the misguided folks who watch too much Fox News.
1:27.1	There's one of those in every family where it's kind of become cliche.
1:30.6	Hell, even I've watched too much Fox News sometimes.
1:33.7	You know, once Springer went off the air, what else was I going to do?
1:36.8	No, I'm talking about the scary people.
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