Background Briefing: March 5, 2025

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Trump and Musk’s Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy

We begin with Trump’s address last night to a joint session of congress in which he made a partisan campaign speech full of lies and culture wars incitement which animated his Republican cult followers who sprang to their feet at every punchline while the Democrats sat in silent opposition exposing the divide that Trump contrived and exploited in the country. Joining us to discuss the blitzkrieg plutocratic coup underway is Dr. Allen Frances, a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University. He is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Saving Normal and the reference work Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis and his latest book is Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, now out in an updated  paperback version.

 

Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night’s Deliberate Demonization

Then we look into the obvious preparation underway to have Musk gut Social Security as Trump laid the groundwork of lies last night to demonize the popular program that hacks and hirelings of right wing plutocrats have long dreamed of destroying since it was created under FDR. Joining us is Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works where his work focuses on protecting and expanding Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and lowering prescription drug prices.

 

Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?

Then finally we speak with Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, an international studies fellow at the New America Foundation, a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the editor-in-Chief of The Aon Cyber Brief. She is the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State, Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, and Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue, co-authored with Julian Zelizer. We discuss the Trump/Musk strategy of moving fast and breaking things before the people wake up and boot the Republicans out of office in 2026 assuming the electoral system has not been rigged by then to make the will of the people a thing of the past.