I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTENI don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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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 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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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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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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