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 WEINGARTENDonald Trump is an awful loser.
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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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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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 don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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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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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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 I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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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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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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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 think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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