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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

Gene Weingarten

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
GENE WEINGARTEN

America Country Thinking
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Journalist Stuff Worst
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Matter Thinking
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Men People Thinking
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Drug Kids Thinking
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality Thinking
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Dictator Popularity Thinking
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?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Lose People Winning
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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Cute Daughter Senior
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
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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Careers Decision School
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak

I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

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