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

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We begin with Trump's Veteran Day speech on Saturday in which he channeled Adolf Hitler

in calling his enemies vermin, with his campaign spokesman vowing that, quote,

their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.

Joining us to discuss Trump's charge as he praised foreign dictators in Russia, China,

North Korea and Hungary that the enemy is within is Matthew Dalek,

an historian and professor of political management at George Washington University's

College of Professional Studies.

The author of The Right Moment and Defenseless Under the Night,

His latest book is Birches, How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.

Then we'll examine the role of the mainstream media in treating Trump,

who was the leader of one of America's two major parties,

with the normal binary equal and

opposite media convention of so-called balance. Joining us is Will Bunch, who is an award-winning

national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he blogs at Attitude that's

spelled at t-T-Y-T-O-D.com. He's the author of the burn identity, a search for Bernie Sanders

and the New American Dream. And most recently, after the ivory tower falls, how college broke

the American dream and blew up our politics and how to fix it, we'll discuss his latest

articles at the Philadelphia Inquirer. US 2025 dictatorship threat just got real.

And as the world burns, a cowardly news media endangers U.S. democracy.

Then finally, we'll speak with Bennett Ranberg, who was a foreign policy analyst in the Bureau of Politico

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