This is Jack of In Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.

I'd like to wish a sweeter new year to those celebrating Russia Shauna.

And today, we're going to have a round table discussion of the 2020 election campaign and electoral strategy with perspectives brought from outside as well as inside the United States

journalist and prolific writer Paul Mason joins us from the UK with his insights from the British election

that saw the defeat of radical labor and the victory of Boris Johnson's Brexit

politics. Paul worries that the Democratic Party strategy against Trump here misreads the right in some of the same ways that Corbin did and he shares his concerns with us.

Ed Broadbent, former leader of the NDP in Canada, brings his views about the campaign

from his own strategic and organizational perspective, and Progressive Democrats of America's

Executive Director Alan Minsky joins us

with his inside perspective of organizing on the ground electoral strategy

including what impact the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will have on the campaign in these last six weeks.

All this when our program returns in just a moment. This is Jack of In Radio. I am Susie Wiseman, Very pleased to be with you today. We're going to do something a little different. I have three terrific people on this show and we're going to have a lot of interaction between them. Paul Mason, Ed Broadbent, and Alan Minsky. The idea

literally was proposed by Paul after he heard Alan a couple of weeks ago and

wanted to bring the British perspective into electoral strategy

here in the United States and so I thought that what we should be doing is having the British

perspective from Paul Mason the British perspective from Paul Mason, the Canadian perspective from Ed Broadbent,

and of course our own Alan Minsky right here.

Now the death on Friday of Ruth Bader Ginsburg changes everything, but at the same time some of the issues

that each of them were thinking about prior to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death are still relevant so we will be able to go into all of those.

And I'm going to have each person do a sort of intro to their ideas and then we'll have cross talk between us and each of us can ask the other

questions and come up with that. I also want to say that I'm beginning with the news that

Stephen Cohen, a frequent guest on this show and a longtime scholar of the

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