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.
GENE WEINGARTENOne 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 believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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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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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 think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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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 think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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