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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More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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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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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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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