With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump’s Critics and Those on Patel’s Enemies List?
We begin with Trump’s attacks on free speech on campuses which, combined with the far right radical delusions of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino that the country is being overrun by “radical left lunatics,” portends a possible roundup of Trump’s critics and those on Patel’s enemies list. Joining us is Tom Mockaitis, a professor of history at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in British, Modern European, and Military History. His research and writing cover international security, terrorism, unconventional conflict, and military history. A regular contributor to The Hill, he has taught counter-terrorism courses at venues around the world as part of the U.S. Department of Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program and is the author of 6 books including ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality and Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat.
The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown
Then we examine the dilemma Senate Democrats face whether to vote for the terrible House bill to keep the government funded or stand up to Trump and Musk and risk being blamed for a government shutdown. Joining us is Robert Creamer, a long-time political organizer and strategist, and author of Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. He is a partner in Democracy Partners, a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change and his latest book is Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success.
Trump’s Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk’s Outsized Influence Over China Policy
Then finally, we look into Trump’s losing strategy of sucking up to Putin in the hope of peeling the embattled Russian leader away from his embrace with Xi Jinping as well as the outsized influence Musk has over China policy and speak with Michael Swaine, a senior research fellow and former director of the Quincy Institute’s East Asia program. One of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies, he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations. He also advises the U.S. government on Asian security issues and his books include Remaining Aligned on the Challenges Facing Taiwan and Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Strategic Net Assessment. We discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft, “Trump’s China policy: A complete unknown?”