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GENE WEINGARTENI 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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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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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.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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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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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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.
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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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