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 WEINGARTENAmerica is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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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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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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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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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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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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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 think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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