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 WEINGARTENI 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.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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 don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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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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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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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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