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Gene Weingarten

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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Lose People Winning
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Soul Thinking War
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cute Daughter Senior
The 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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

One Thing Thinking Writing
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arduous Choices Inside Involving
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Order Sides Steak
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Coincidence Trump White
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Monster People
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
Politics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Itself Politics Thinking
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Dictator Popularity Thinking
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Awful Loser Trump
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Careers Decision School
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Journalist Stuff Worst

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