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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

Gene Weingarten

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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Change Greatest Many Won
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Books Doctors Kings
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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Blow Stupid Thinking
But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Important People Use
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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Gone Names Recognition
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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Kids Minority School

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