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Journalist Tina Nguyen, who has written the new book The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out), tells The New Abnormal how her free market ideals as a college student saw her swept up in the early days of the MAGA movement.
“I entered the conservative world thinking it was like a pretty pure place that wanted to preserve the ideals of the founding fathers and believed in… free minds, free markets,” she told Andy Levy. “What I started noticing was that on the ground level, there were a bunch of people who were kind of willing to do whatever it took in order to get one up over the liberals and that they were being rewarded for their behavior.”