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Jul 2025
53m 17s

Nicholas Grossman: This Is Not Normal

Charlie Sykes
About this episode
Charlie Sykes welcomes Nicholas Grossman of Arc Digital for a wide-ranging conversation on the political unraveling of the Republican Party, including Senator Thom Tillis's defection and the cult of Trump. They explore the Supreme Court's role in enabling executive overreach and discuss how Trump's foreign policy blunders may ignite a new era of global nuclear proliferation

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