313: The MAGA Diaries with Tina Nguyen
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Author and Resident MAGA Expert/Insider at Puck, Tina Nguyen. They discuss Tina’s brand new book, The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out), the state of the GOP and how the far right has taken over, and why the media reacts the way it does to MAGA messaging. The MAGA Diaries is available wherever fine books are sold. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, it's 2024. We've been waiting. Here it is. We've |
| 0:06.9 | been talking about this. Everything we did in 2021 to prepare for 2022. Everything we did in 2022 to prepare for |
| 0:14.7 | 23. It all comes down to this, guys. Now, 10 months, 10 months to Election Day. I hope you'll get involved with |
| 0:23.6 | us. I want to say thank you for listening. I hope you will share this with your friends, |
| 0:28.6 | your family, your colleagues in the American pro-democracy movement. I hope you'll sign up |
| 0:34.1 | Lincolnproject.us. Join the union.us. Get involved, everybody. Every moment counts. |
| 0:42.4 | And I cannot say thank you enough. And now, on with the show. |
| 0:50.2 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm your host, Reid Galen. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, I'm once again joined by Tina Wynn, resident MAGA expert and insider at Puck News, |
| 1:04.4 | where she chronicles the transformation of the GOP and the egos and intrigues there within, |
| 1:09.8 | in Trump world and beyond. |
| 1:11.7 | Prior to her time at Puck, she wrote for Mediite, Vanity Fair, Politico, the Daily Caller, Tina, |
| 1:17.4 | and some other now either defunct or probably defunct outlets, which we'll get to. |
| 1:23.3 | Her first book is out this week, everybody. |
| 1:25.1 | Go get it. |
| 1:25.7 | The Maga Diaries, my surreal adventures inside the right wing and how I got out, which is available wherever fine books are found. Today, she's coming to us live in studio from Washington, D.C. Tina, welcome back. Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me back. I'm really excited to rock and roll again. So listen, one thing I will say is that, you know, you and I have, I don't know how long |
| 1:47.7 | we've actually known each other, a couple of years maybe. But the one thing that I said to you |
| 1:51.7 | right before we started recording was you don't often find members of the mainstream media, |
| 1:59.1 | as I put air quotes out here, who came from a more conservative, |
| 2:03.4 | political, ideological space than I did. |
| 2:06.5 | And I'm not particularly ideological anyway, and I'm not particularly conservative. |
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