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 WEINGARTENDonald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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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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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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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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