The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTENThe 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.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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 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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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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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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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 think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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