The MAGA Diaries My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right–Wing (and How I Got Out) [Audiobook]

Swept up by pro-America rhetoric and promises of a career in journalism, Nguyen was drawn into the world of right-wing student activism, and the early days of the movement now known as MAGA. In The MAGA Diaries, she tells not only her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement (well before Trump), but the history of the right-wing, painting a shocking picture of how they recruit, train, and indoctrinate generations of young people in search of opportunity-think dinners with Peter Thiel, conventions that rival Coachella, and the ever-elusive promise of future job security-and shape them into the influential leaders and 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-and 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 leaders of the right, and it's urgent we start paying attention.