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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.

Gene Weingarten

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.
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One Thing Thinking Writing
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
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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Believe Monster People
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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Giving Phones Talking
Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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Men People 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
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Black Local Middle School
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
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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Careers Decision School
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
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.
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Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
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
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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Eye Lose People Winning
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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Gone Names Recognition
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.
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Dictator Popularity Thinking
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
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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Decision Important Thinking
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
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 WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
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
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian

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