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.
GENE WEINGARTENI believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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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 Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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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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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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