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The book was described as a coming-of-age memoir detailing a transformational political journey, and it was initially met with skepticism by the speaker as just another book about the MAGA movement, though it turned out to be completely different and highly valuable.
When I first heard about this new book, The MAGA Diaries, I thought my initial reaction was, oh great, another book about the MAGA movement. Just what we need, another book about the Trump era. But I...
— Episode: Tina Nguyen: The MAGA Diaries
Episode: Tina Nguyen: The MAGA Diaries
The book was described as a coming-of-age memoir detailing a transformational political journey, and it was initially met with skepticism by the speaker as just another book about the MAGA movement, though it turned out to be completely different and highly valuable.
When I first heard about this new book, The MAGA Diaries, I thought my initial reaction was, oh great, another book about the MAGA movement. Just what we need, another book about the Trump era. But I got to say, this one is completely different.
This is not one of those books. The MAGA Diaries is a coming of age memoir. One of those tales wherein the main character goes on a transformational journey from childhood to adulthood, a political book with a curveball.
Kirkus describes it as a sobering, endlessly readable fly on the wall account of creeping fascism.
The book is The MAGA Diaries, My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right Wing and How I Got Out by Tina Wynn, who is a founding partner, national correspondent at PUC, formerly a reporter for The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair and Politico.