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 WEINGARTENShakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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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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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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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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