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Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.
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Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.
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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
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I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.
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The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
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I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
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That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.
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The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.
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I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.
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We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.
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The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.
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It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.
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It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.
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I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.
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When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.
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[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.
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Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.
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The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
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