Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTENBeing “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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I think politics is everything.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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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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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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