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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.

Gene Weingarten

It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
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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Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
I think politics is everything.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Everything Politics Thinking
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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Category Deal Happens Terrifying
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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Cute Daughter Senior
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
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.
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Change Greatest Many Won
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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Cynical Intelligent People
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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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Books Doctors Kings
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
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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Soul Thinking War
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Blow Stupid Thinking
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Believe Matter Thinking

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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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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