The Maga Diaries My Surreal Adventures Inside The Rightwing And How I Got Out Tina Nguyen by Tina Nguyen 9781982189716, 1982189711 instant download after payment.

Her very first job was working for a little-known journalist named Tucker Carlson. She’s chugged Mountain Dews with the first Breitbart writers, poured over conspiracy theories from COVID-19 deniers, & visited the apocalyptic Patriot Church deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. The right is now a MAGA cult. And Tina Nguyen knows because she was raised by it, back when it wasn’t one. 

In 2008, in the weeks leading up to the election of Barack Obama, Nguyen was a history-loving, politics-obsessed college student at Claremont McKenna College, drawn there by a boyfriend—& a research institute called the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom. Swept up by pro-America rhetoric & promises of a career in journalism, Nguyen was drawn into the world of right-wing student activism, & the early days of the movement now known as MAGA. In The MAGA Diaries, she tells not only her story of loving & leaving the conservative movement (well before Trump), but the history of the right-wing, painting a shocking picture of how they recruit, train, & indoctrinate generations of young people in search of opportunity—think dinners with Peter Thiel, conventions that rival Coachella, & the ever-elusive promise of future job security—& shape them into the influential leaders & supporting cast of tomorrow’s Republican party. They are ruthless in building robust networks of power, even if it means demolishing entire civic institutions, from women’s rights to fair elections—& staging a coup when it doesn’t work out. 

In The MAGA Diaries, Nguyen pulls back the curtain on the conservative machine for the first time, shining a light on the systematized on-ramp for young Republicans. These are the new lea