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

and today we're looking to a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the latest example of Trump's worship of murderous dictators

as he praised Putin, Xi, Orban and Kim Jong-un at a rally on Thursday for being, quote,

at the top of their game.

We'll discuss the video Trump posted, What's next for America, which gushed that Trump

would usher in an economic boom as a result of, quote, the creation of a unified Reich.

Although the video was quickly taken down from Truth Social and its posting was blamed on a

staffer, much of the coverage misses the point that goes beyond the problem of Trump to reveal that

many staffers in Trump's GOP are white nationalists who casually use Nazi terms because

that is their milieu and their mindset.

Joining us is David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral associate at the Yale program for the study of

anti-Semitism and a college fellow at the University of Virginia.

He's the author of Taking America Back, the Conservative Movement and the Far Right,

and we'll discuss his article at the New York Times,

Do you want a unified Reich mindset in the White House?

Then we'll speak with Alexander Reed Ross, a scholar and activist who has spent over a decade working for environmental and social justice.

His articles on the transnational far right have appeared in such publications as Hariretz, the Oregon Historical Quarterly, and Zite Online, and he's the author of Against the Fascist Creep.

He is quoted in an article at The Guardian, Maga Communism, the ludicrous online movement seducing powerful people on the right, and we'll investigate the political

grifters who co-opt leftist issues and repackage them in MAGA-friendly terms that has Tucker

Carlson and Alex Jones promoting their movement, which attacks global elites, while emphasizing

masculine honor in their admiration of Putin. Then finally we'll

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