International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTENThe 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?
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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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 think politics is everything.
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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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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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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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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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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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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 a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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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 think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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