Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll begin on this New Year's's Eve as we broadcast on the last day of

2024 with a retrospective from a compilation of programs throughout the year starting back in

January and ending this month as we work back through the major stories of the year as they

evolved to the present we start off today with a broadcaster background briefing from September the 10th of

2024 titled, We Should Take Trump at His Word that he wants to be a dictator and jail his opponents

and the press. We spoke then with Jason Stanley, the Jacob Uraski Professor of Philosophy at Yale

University, and the author of how propaganda works

and how fascism works the politics of us and them.

His latest book is Erasing History, How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future,

and we discussed how we should take Trump at his word that he wants to be a dictator,

like his idol Putin, and that he'll put his

opponents in the press in Gulags as promised and open up the treasury to Jared Ivanka,

not to Jared and Ivanka, not to mention Don Jr. Eric and Lara, etc.

Before we begin, in the last weeks of this year, as we face the looming prospect of four more ruinous years of Trump, along with Vance,

to those able to make end-of-the-year charitable donations, please consider backgroundbriefing.org slash donate

to bolster our efforts in the years ahead as we stand our ground and rebuild an opposition movement to bridge the divide

Trump has exploited with false promises to his voters in order to reward his billionaire buddies

who have already bought the Supreme Court and are in the process of buying the entire government.

Being educated doesn't make you an elitist and knowledge and opportunity should be shared

with those left behind who are our brothers and sisters, not our enemies. So background

briefing's mission of building a reality-based community in Post-Truth America is now more

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