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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.

Gene Weingarten

The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
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
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
GENE WEINGARTEN

America Country Thinking
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arduous Choices Inside Involving
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Atheist Hate Sorry
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Reason Way
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Books Doctors Kings
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cute Daughter Senior
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kids Minority School
I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Dope Lying
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits

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