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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

Gene Weingarten

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
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
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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Kids Minority School
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
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
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
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
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
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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Important People Use
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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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
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
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Drug Kids Thinking

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