Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it.
Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting.
If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how it’s being covered, this is the show for you. Real reporting. Clear explanations. Actual context.
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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
No Kings, No Crowds, And Our New Cycle Of Violence
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After a weekend of history-making protests and a lackluster military/birthday parade, the occasions were really marked by a new set of political violence.
An assassination and three more attempted assassinations of Democrats in Minnesota by an alleged gunman who had plans to go after dozens more Democratic leaders upended the weekend.
Grant talks about what we know in that case so far, the rise in political violence that's becoming a new normal, and what's making it worse.
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