The former Terminator can hold his own with wonkish sceptics.
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He was more wonkish, which bored a lot of people.
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Why not imagine that he has a wonkish side as well?
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Bear with me if you have a taste for things wonkish.
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I put up the "wonkish" as a warning to normal human beings.
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Oh, and a warning: I try to tell readers when something is going to be wonkish and incomprehensible, but this is going to be really, really, really wonkish and incomprehensible, unless you spent years doing perfect-foresight dynamic models.
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But voters, unlike economists, don't pay attention to the wonkish details of speeches.
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A wonkish sort of politician, he must be horrified by Mr Trump's policies.
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Both wonkish and elegant, "The King Is Dead" allows us a peek inside.
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Betty Yee, the state's wonkish financial controller, thinks the answer is comprehensive tax reform.
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It is lighter on the kind of wonkish, compromise-oriented technocrats who move bills.
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He also provides much wonkish detail on radio royalties and the evolution of copyright law.
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I learned early that some of my colleagues were politically savvy, and some were wonkish.
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Their hotel-bar conversations have been known to run to wonkish topics like deterrence theory.
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Little time was spent on wonkish discussion as she kept it personal and focused on people.
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She combines a wonkish seriousness with easy joke-making in a way that has broad appeal.
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Throughout the debate, the vice president sighed many times and employed the wonkish "lockbox" term repeatedly.
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But Ms. Barry's wonkish policy goals were eclipsed by details of her affair with former Sgt.
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As befits Warren's wonkish, master-of-plans persona, she's relied in both cases on top experts.
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But voters don't tune in to prime-time debates to watch hours of wonkish hair-splitting.
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A MONTH before the first primary contest in Iowa, the Republican race is more warlike than wonkish.
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As a west-coast liberal, with a wonkish air and overfondness for leftish jargon, he would need it.
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Get bogged down in technical terms like diatonic interval and chromatic diesis and you risk sounding gratingly wonkish.
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The dishwasher debate takes a wonkish turn, devolving into dishwashers' ability to clean "lightly-" and "normally-soiled" dishes.
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Their values and vision shape policy in these realms more than wonkish insistence on this strategy or that measure.
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Whatever you think of the merits of his wonkish reputation, he is certainly more policy-oriented than his predecessor.
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You will be as comfortable getting wonkish with sector experts as you will be explaining complex concepts to laypeople.
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The large population of military members should be receptive to Bush's wonkish style and firm grasp on world events.
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Mrs von der Leyen, a wonkish and unflashy type, cannot point to much of a mandate from the parliament.
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Donald Trump did not run a wonkish campaign heavily focused on detailed white papers or background briefings with experts.
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For moderates, it means acknowledging that Sanders' pugnacious authenticity appeals to some swing voters more than wonkish centrism does.
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Pressley has taken the image of Warren as a wonkish Harvard Law professor and tried to turn it on its head.
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I illustrated this argument with a simple diagram (simple for economists - I told you this was wonkish), reproduced as Figure 1003.
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Some of what follows is wonkish, but I've left off the label because the basic point doesn't require the technical analysis.
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This all sounds wonkish and antiseptic, but in poor countries, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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Workflow is somewhat of a visual programming tool that's easier than writing an app but probably too wonkish for the average consumer.
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As a comedian, he specialized in surprisingly wonkish political humor that was based on challenging blowhards like Bill O'Reilly on the facts.
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A disciple of Ayn Rand and supply-side legend Jack Kemp, Ryan presented himself as the wonkish future of the Republican Party.
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The last two candidates Democrats have nominated are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: big-city, over-educated, policy-wonkish, non-white-men.
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In contrast, although Clinton is more emotional than her cooler, detached former boss, she still speaks in much more wonkish foreign policy terms.
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Micro influencers are a kind of engagement sweet-spot, because engagement is really a wonkish sort of word for emotional attachment and trust.
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Sajid Javid, who was promoted to home secretary last month, made wonkish reforms in his previous two years as secretary of state for housing.
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If Clinton is elected, she'll give earnest, wonkish speeches about the benefits of increasing the child tax credit or raising the minimum wage. Yawn.
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The swamp that is being drained is the one inhabited by wonkish technocrats who have devoted their careers to the details of policy-making.
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Politics, he argues, did not gain massive popularity among the young because of the thrill of high-minded policy discussions and reasoned, wonkish debate.
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McMullin is virtually unknown outside of wonkish Republican policy circles (he had just 135 followers on Twitter when Buzzfeed first reported the news Monday morning).
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Her speeches are mostly wonkish and dull, workaday constructions of a politician who appears to view human progress as a series of nudging policy improvements.
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Some of the news is wonkish and boring, but you should at least get a little of that, just as you should eat your vegetables.
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Granted, she owns up to her errors, including a naive faith in the power of wonkish ideas to placate angry voters, and some embarrassing bloopers.
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Like many a wonkish youth, Ms. Khan headed to Washington after graduating in 2010, applying for a position at the left-leaning New America Foundation.
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It seems that the swamp being drained is the one inhabited by wonkish technocrats who have devoted their careers to the details of policy making.
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They were a genuine odd couple—the wonkish ruminant sharing a cockpit with Mr. Congeniality, whose days flew by without a flutter of self-doubt.
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Along with his wife, Laura, Arnold has been showering money on an expert class of wonkish academics, advocacy groups, and journalists interested in drug pricing issues.
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Ms Warren has risen in the polls by creating the brand of a wonkish populist with a plan for everything (including one inquiring supporter's love life).
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This confirms both Mr Trump's disdain for wonkish wisdom of the kind the CEA usually dispenses, and his satisfaction with the economic policy advice he already gets.
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But Sanders has never seen the fight in terms of a wonkish debate over health care policy, or reimbursement rates, or comparisons with international health care systems.
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And, it must be said, the blithe status quo-ism of Mr Biden could be even more off-putting to Mr Sanders's supporters than her wonkish pragmatism.
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But they have clear differences in tone; Sanders explains his vision with sweeping moral directives, while Warren is known for her more wonkish approach to structural change.
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The former Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate -- who was known for his wonkish love of policy on the campaign trail -- will deliver his first lecture on Thursday.
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Clinton's wonkish speeches, in comparison, can be tuned out, with more than one cable news anchor promising to "continue to monitor the speech" before cutting away from Clinton.
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Why that is remains complicated, but in a lot of ways it comes down to a bold if polarizing policy that appeals to a type of wonkish Democrat.
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For years, he pursued his wonkish passions strictly from an academic distance, writing reports on how Canadian cities, including Calgary, could become more environmentally sustainable and economically competitive.
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That will require them to be a bit more right-wing or populist in their mass appeal; for too long, they've been too wonkish and above-the-fray.
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And Ryan presented himself as the wonkish apostle of this new GOP, rolling up his sleeves and running through the charts, graphs, and tables that made his case.
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Hillary Clinton has reams of wonkish proposals, but she has trouble articulating an overall economic agenda and, amid the rhetorical mud-wrestling, her fiddly ideas have received little scrutiny.
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For me, it was both an opportunity for me to learn and to grow, and as you know I did have that bit of a Georgetown policy wonkish thing.
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This was especially true when the Democrats ran wonkish but drab candidates, are a speciality of the party: Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton.
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Soderbergh refuses to get wonkish about the crime; he drops in a few rum details—for what possible purpose, you wonder, is Mellie painting live cockroaches with nail polish?
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A wonkish member of the GOP caucus, Price made a name for himself drafting conservative budget proposals and becoming among the fiercest critics of President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Misunderstood by critics, audiences and perhaps even certain people who made it, "Showgirls" (1995) continues its journey toward full reclamation with this pleasingly wonkish, clip-heavy deconstruction from Jeffrey McHale.
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What may have seemed like a wonkish, technocratic, good-government policy clashed with what turned out to be deeply ingrained feelings among many Americans about when Thanksgiving should be celebrated.
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It's strange to listen to a politician whose campaign is built on such wonkish planks as defending religious liberty and restoring the Constitution criticize his opponents for a lack of substance.
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And she added some new, off-brand material for a candidate who rose in the polls last year on the strength of her myriad plans and reputation as a wonkish fighter.
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Clinton seemed to fall back on wonkish Washington speak, using terms like "COLA" (or the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security) and "income contingent repayment plans" for sliding scale student loans.
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The four Republican presidential candidates still running for the White House held a debate in Miami on Thursday night that was notably more wonkish and polite than any of their previous contests.
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This is the wonkish part, so feel free to skim and don't worry if it seems incomprehensible, as long as you're willing to accept the bottom line for the sake of argument.
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Its bland office building, which sits unobtrusively by a freeway in southwest Washington, houses an often-overlooked assemblage of wonkish economists whose idea of professional happiness is producing 10-year fiscal forecasts.
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Jonathan Chait, for instance, is a liberal technocrat, nostalgic for the certitude of Cold War liberalism and adept at writing forcefully wonkish briefs for Democratic Party policies on health care and economic policy.
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But her Oklahoma origin story — she went by Betsy at the time — has largely been lost in a 2020 race where she has become defined chiefly as the wonkish "plan for that" candidate.
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Clinton's team didn't have the luxury to fall back on feel-good messaging, so it made the most of the sometimes odd combination of her wonkish, earnest persona and Twitter's hard-edged cynicism.
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Paul Krugman For those who weren't reading my blog before it was folded into the column page, "wonkish" posts were written with economists or highly economics-fluent readers in mind, not the broader public.
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Her grip on policy is ironclad; in hours of wonkish debate with Bernie Sanders, the rival she beat handsomely in the New York primary on April 19th (see article), she has rarely been caught out.
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But that confrontation and a string of others in the months since have given Mr. Shaub, a self-effacing career bureaucrat more comfortable parsing legal arguments and wonkish ethics guidelines, the reputation of a fighter.
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Mr. Johnson tends to speak softly, but sternly, and his reserved, self-described wonkish style doesn't result in soaring speeches or viral moments meant to captivate voters who have remained largely apathetic about the race.
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Across the Western world it is at an all-time low, which helps explain why many prefer so-called "authentic" politicians, who "tell it how it is" (ie, say what people feel), to the wonkish type.
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One wonkish aside — if you look at, say, the average Friday or Sunday grid structure, you can see that upward stair steps (also known as black squares set on a diagonal) are more common than not.
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Mr Herrera, who has worked at the World Bank and as finance secretary in Mexico City when Mr López Obrador was its mayor, is thought to be wonkish and to understand the importance of the financial markets.
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While Bush's wonkish side impressed voters at his town halls, it never broke through as a winning profile in an election year where bluster, bombast and soaring rhetoric was more appealing to an angry and frustrated electorate.
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Indeed, in the United States it's actually common for ideologically rigorous candidates — including mostly conservative Republicans but also Bernie Sanders — to speak in terms of grandiose and likely unachievable visions rather than in wonkish, nitty-gritty details.
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A wonkish sort, he spreads out charts at PAN headquarters showing how American manufacturing jobs were stable for years after NAFTA came into force in 1994, only to collapse after China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
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Mrs Clinton set out to sound practical, even wonkish, offering a three-part plan for tackling IS and other "radical jihadist groups" that includes all arms of the government, the brightest minds in Silicon Valley and community groups.
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What hooked Jamey Stegmaier, president of Stonemaier Games, was Ms. Hargrave's wonkish ability to strike a fine balance, using so many cards, between the two driving components of game design: mathematics and psychology, with the latter taking precedence.
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For all that there are wonkish reasons why it makes sense for Warren to release this plan even if she knows it is doomed, we're seeing the practical effect of her "I've got a plan for that" refrain.
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And my father was an engineer by training and so that was sort of my mentality, where is started intellectually, and I went to Georgetown School Foreign Service ... So did I. And got a bit of policy wonkish thing.
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The other day I posted a wonkish piece about the economics of a trade war, which argued that there would be huge disruption but the overall cost would be smaller than many people imagine — maybe 2-3% of GDP.
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Widely known in Washington and beyond for his wonkish tendencies -- he used a PowerPoint presentation last week to explain his health care bill to reporters -- Ryan has suggested that selling the House GOP bill will take far more than a catchphrase.
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But on the other hand, if she attacked a carbon tax on its merits she'd be lambasted by the kind of wonkish establishment liberal pundits who've been generally supportive of her campaign and environmental groups would be compelling to slam her.
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Such figures as Mr Pence and Mr Ryan, with their record of backing free-trade pacts and their wonkish talk of balanced budgets, limited government and a global, outward-facing America, are describing ways to make their country more competitive.
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The capability of renewables is fully confirmed by a wonkish 2015 study from the experts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which concludes that the western power grid is perfectly capable of handling large amounts of wind and solar energy.
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Former aides who otherwise sing Clinton's praises vaguely grumble about her wonkish grasp of policy, prompting her to delineate the tradeoffs and costs, employing a level of nuance that frequently doesn't translate well amid an era of soundbite-oriented coverage.
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"The former Utah congressman has not just taken a break from a career as a media-savvy and slightly wonkish politician, someone who might reasonably have aspired to the U.S. Senate and/or the Utah governor's office," the board continues.
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Warren and Harris, in particular, have left Sanders little room on the left, but Warren brings a wonkish command that Sanders has never quite had, while Harris is an African American woman running to represent a party that's heavily female and nonwhite.
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There are people who cover politics who seem to labor under the impression that a politician can be wonkish or charming but never both, and Paul Ryan is both, albeit to a very moderate degree, which can make him seem very impressive indeed.
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One strength of this wonkish, follow-the-numbers approach is that it avoids the political challenge faced by reformers: the fact that many voters yearn to feel safe from crime, and do not want to be told that this is a wicked or selfish ambition.
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This summer Ms. Abrams visited every one of Georgia's 159 counties, many of them in deeply Republican areas, with the same wonkish, detail-obsessed message delivered in the same rapid-fire cadences: Georgia needs more jobs, more public transportation, better infrastructure, better rural health care.
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One could imagine any number of directions for Sanders to go with his choices for the platform committee: union officials who can share his impulses on trade; little-known wonkish progressives in academia; the Ben & Jerry's ice cream moguls who helped fundraise for his campaign.
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NEWARK — The low-profile governor's race in New Jersey shed its sleepy veneer on Tuesday night as the first general election debate quickly descended into an hourlong rumpus that was both acerbic and wonkish with the two candidates repeatedly lacing into each other's positions and personal background.
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This basic problem has become well-known to consumers of wonkish journalism as a problem with the Census Bureau's official measurement of poverty, but the problems with the poverty threshold are largely a second-order consequence of the overall problem with the definition of income itself.
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Bernie Sanders represents the most viable truly left-wing candidate in decades; Elizabeth Warren provides a slightly more moderate, wonkish contrast to Sanders; if Warren and Sanders both seem extreme voters can turn to beloved former Vice President Joe Biden; if Biden seems too old, why not Pete Buttigieg?
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The Democratic debates so far have had a definite note of this: Serious contemplation of public policy issues is dismissed as wonkish, unless of course the politician can follow it up with a pithy sound bite or, better yet, a dubious human-interest story often difficult to fact-check.
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This is, more or less, how Sanders likes to roll — flagrantly brushing aside wonkish worries that would get in the way of framing a good-versus-bad story and eager to attract criticism from technocrats that only serves to underscore his image as a unique scourge of the establishment.
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While he is better in situations like town-hall-style meetings that appeal to his wonkish policy instincts, in debates he has the air of an enormously rich fish who, having been forced to leave the comforts of his pond, finds himself under attack by a herd of noisy, angry land mammals.
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Whitaker is at his most creepy-kindly as Louise's handler, exhorting but not badgering her to establish the aliens' intent, and Renner, likewise, sheds the tough hide of his action-movie persona for the sake of a wonkish inwardness—relieved, I suspect, to swap the arrows of Marvel for a pair of spectacles.
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With so much to occupy our attention this electoral season — border walls, "basket of deplorables," small hands, walking pneumonia — you'd be forgiven for overlooking a wonkish report put out jointly last week by the Federal Reserve Board (the "Fed"), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
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For example, with Senator Bernie Sanders by her side at University of New Hampshire campaign stop on Wednesday, why not bring up a college students buried in hundreds of thousands in student loan debt and explain in a clear and non-wonkish way how her plan could concretely and significantly change their situation for the better?
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I want to do everything I can for us to compete and win in the global economy... COOPER: ... Senator Sanders... CLINTON: ... and that's what I will do as president... COOPER: ... I just want to explain to viewers what the Export- Import Bank is, in case everybody is not quite as wonkish as everybody on this stage here.
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There was a sense from the get-go that we were making history Some of the more common narratives around ACT UP's success—including in How to Survive a Plague—focus on how we became very wonkish, and our own experts in AIDS research to adeptly push players like the US government and pharmaceutical companies towards finding treatments.
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Speaking with a mix of enthusiasm and what she called a wonkish love of science and precision, Dr. Kanem said the UNFPA's family planning was liberating millions of women to become educated and productive members of the work force, a profound shift that many developing countries are only now beginning to appreciate for its economic benefits.
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A former French finance official who has spent much of his career in the depths of wonkish tax policy, he is the closest thing to a referee that countries have in determining what the future rules should be, which companies should be included in the new regime, and how governments can resolve disputes when they inevitably bicker.
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Mr. Kemp's pivot has been both stylistic and substantive, and it comes as Ms. Abrams, 44, a Yale Law School graduate and former state house minority leader, has been campaigning around Georgia arguing, with wonkish delight, that her progressive policy ideas — including robust investment in public education, gun control and the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare — amount to mainstream common sense.
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"I think we are in a society where we are offended way too easily," said Angie Crawford, 52, an insurance seller from Hahira, Ga. Mr. Kemp's presentation is a throwback of sorts in a state that has, in recent decades, seen the rise of a more wonkish style of campaigner, from Jimmy Carter on the left to Newt Gingrich on the right.
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In a Democratic presidential primary contest in which there has been little movement in the candidates' positions in the polls, Ms Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, has engineered an exceptional rise, thanks in part to her plans, both wonkish and attention-grabbing: universal child care, a wealth tax, a $2trn climate-change plan and the breaking up of America's biggest technology firms.
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Even though I try to signal the difference with warnings like "wonkish", I know that many readers still don't understand that there's a difference between stuff I write to deadline on Mondays and Thursdays and stuff I post when the mood strikes; I get complaints about "wasting space" even when no trees were killed in the making of a post that's technical, self-indulgent, or both.
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The populist, anti-establishment movement that has fueled Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's success in the primary race directly conflicts with Ryan's wonkish conservatism, which aims to spur growth by reforming entitlement programs, cutting spending and shrinking government.
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They often run for more than half of Last Week Tonight's (usually half-hour) runtime, and the show has established a tradition of mixing issues of obvious significance to the American-centric news cycle, with a wonkish bent — voting rights, gerrymandering, the Trump administration's family separation policy, the Equifax security breach — with topics that may never have crossed viewers' radar: human rights in Tibet (with special guest the Dalai Lama), legal guardianship in elder care, the Scottish independence referendum.
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Less reliance on input from corporate America means President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE will need to expand the USTR enforcement staff (as Clinton proposed) and make the components of the U.S. government that monitor foreign business environments – agencies within the Commerce and State departments – do a better job (something so wonkish not even a Clinton policy paper mentioned it).
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