The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTENPolitics is how you think about life itself.
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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 Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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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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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One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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