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The Michael Steele Podcast

The Right Has Drastically Changed Over Time: With Tina Nguyen

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Tina Nguyen, author of The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out), about how the right and left are structured different from the fundamentals, working for Tucker Carlson, and her unique experiences as a conservative woman of color.

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Find Tina Nguyen: https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-Diaries-Surreal-Adventures-Right-Wing/dp/198218969X
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0:00.0

We need to listen to people who disagree with us. Hey, former Congressman Joe Walsh here,

0:05.0

I have a podcast called White Flag with Joe Walsh. Every week, I sit down with people who do not think like me,

0:12.0

and we model how to have respectful conversations right with

0:15.2

people we disagree with learn to understand we got to do this if we want to

0:19.5

keep this democracy going listen to White Flag with Joe Walsh.

0:24.2

It's a daily podcast, or a weekly conversation,

0:26.8

but you can catch a little something every day,

0:28.8

Spotify, Apple, wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:32.8

White Flag with Joe Walsh,

0:34.7

check it out, honest, uncomfortable conversations.

0:38.8

The alt-right movement has recruited,

0:40.8

indoctrinated, and built networks of power in politics by surrounding itself with misinformation,

0:46.8

disinformation, and outright crazy. Now in doing so, some associated with the community have come to realize that their values don't necessarily align with this movement.

0:59.0

So my guest today is Tina Wynne, National Correspondent for Puck, covering Donald Trump and the right.

1:05.0

Previously, Tina was a White House correspondent and reporter for Political, a staff reporter for Vanity

1:11.1

Fair Hive, and an editor at Mediate.

1:16.0

Her new book, this is what we're gonna get into,

1:18.4

the Maga diaries, my surreal adventures

1:21.4

inside the right wing

1:22.9

and how I got out, covers her own journey,

1:27.0

her background, her story into this world

1:30.6

in which she talks about and details the history of the alt-right,

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