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When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
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I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.
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Fundamentalism is still on the march.
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
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Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
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