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 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?
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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?
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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 see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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I think politics is everything.
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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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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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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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