We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
GENE WEINGARTENI think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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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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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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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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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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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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 Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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