The MAGA Infiltrator, Feat. Amanda Moore

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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 compatriots 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.” Elsewhere on the podcast, co-hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng discuss the results of a Texas election audit that “Republican officials were trying to bury”—namely because “they found basically nothing wrong with the results”—and dissect an increasingly bitter feud between two audit-fanatics that has descended into potty-mouthed doxxing. Sommer recounts his firsthand experience of being at the Capitol during the riot a year ago, and the hosts dissect the newest catchphrase to devour the far-right and the latest chaos roiling the ultra-alpha manosphere.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins.
0:07.8	And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.
0:15.2	All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,
0:25.4	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing
0:30.5	our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Will, happy New Year,
0:36.3	first recorded episode of 2022. How are you feeling?
0:40.2	I'm back, man. I'm ready to pod. Let's do it. Okay, for starters, you have been tracking something
0:44.8	that actually went down on New Year's Eve 2021. Will, would this be a chance something that
0:50.8	Republican officials were trying to bury at a time when significantly fewer people
0:55.8	are actually following the news.
0:57.7	Yeah, so this is New Year's Eve.
0:59.2	Folks are breaking out the champagne, getting ready to sing Old Lang sign.
1:04.1	But in my home state of Texas, there's an interesting development in the audit saga.
1:08.2	So for a while, obviously, we've reported on the desire to audit everything, even states that
1:13.8	Donald Trump won.
1:15.1	So in this case, a few months ago, some Republican officials at the high level there in
1:20.2	Texas, they sort of bowed to pressure from activists and said, well, we're going to audit
1:23.7	votes to, just like Arizona.
1:26.1	And like in Arizona, they went after the most
1:28.2	populace and Democratic counties. Just by coincidence. Sheer coincidence. Right. Oh, well, let's all
1:33.2	look where the Republican strongholds are. So basically, they ended up, this was really hotly anticipated.
1:38.6	Oh, we're going to get to the bottom of this. What have these Democrats been up to? This kind of
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