Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin

with Trump and Vance complaining the Europeans aren't racist enough, wanting them to expel all

the Muslims, just as he is expelling all the brown-skinned immigrants and minorities as fast

as Stephen Miller can push ICE to meet his quotas. We'll assess Trump's national security strategy that accuses Europe of civilizational erasure.

While here at home, Trump is pursuing democratic erasure and speak with Charles Cupsion,

who was director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.

He is now a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University School of Foreign

Service and spent the last three years of the Obama administration as special assistant

to President of Obama for national security. He's the author of Power and Transition,

the Peaceful Change of stable peace,

and his latest book, Isolationism, A History of America's Efforts to Shield itself from the world.

Then we'll look into why the Democrats lost the last election and what they must do to win the next one

and speak with Sam Rosenthal, the political director at Rootsaction,

who serves on the Democratic Socialist of America's National Electoral Committee.

He was formerly the political director at Our Revolution, and he has a new report at

Roots Action, how Democrats lost the White House. Then finally, we'll speak with a Gen Z organizer, Jazz Brissac,

the organizing director of the Inside Organizer School, which they co-founded in 2018 to train

non-union workers and salts to unionize their workplace. They first started organizing in

Mississippi, working on a UAW campaign at the Nissan factory

and volunteering as a pink house defender at the state's last abortion clinic.

After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Jazz got a job as a barista at the

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