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The dunces who ran the party’s messaging on the economy were the problem.

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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.

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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

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Ironically, she was punished in school for not being able to keep quiet and put in a corner with a dunce cap on her head.

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But, he said, the rise of Reagan, whom he considered at the time to be an “amiable dunce, and my view hasn’t changed,” made him rethink that decision.

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