I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
GENE WEINGARTENThe 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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On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
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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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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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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 think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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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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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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 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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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 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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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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