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.
GENE WEINGARTENThe one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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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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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 Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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