I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
GENE WEINGARTENOn 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 Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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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 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.
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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 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 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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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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 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 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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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