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"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"--.
This week marks the publication of Nguyen’s first book, The MAGA Diaries, an insider’s account of how she evolved from a child of immigrants drawn to the opportunities presented by the conservative machinery’s pipeline of scholarships into a skeptic of the choices offered to not just young people but also voters.
To my mother, who taught me to be brave, and to John Homans, who taught me to be bold. (And to Batman, from whom I swiped the phrase “The Brave and The Bold.”)
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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about the history of the Republican party, the history of the American conservative movement inside that party, and the history of Donald Trump and his administration and January 6th and militant white nationalists and whatever other right-wing insanities have emerged in American politics over the last eight years. This is not one of those books.
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I'd been certain of my own knowledge about how the movement worked, but I'd rarely, if ever, seen how it had impacted everyone outside of my world. Either the activist movement had not told me everything they'd known, or they themselves didn't understand the scope of the forces they were dealing with.
"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"--.
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