After spending decades slavishly carrying water for the moneyed class, he’s been on a notable anti-Trump lately.
Which implies two possibilities - either he’s finally developed some principles and integrity at this late date, which is unlikely, or the moneyed class support for Trump isn’t quite as universal as the broligarch stranglehold on social media has made it appear…
The very richest are — but the professional class, which can shell out $3000 every few years, isn’t. And the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is almost exactly a billion dollars. It’s still very doable for Democrats to raise the kind of money it takes to be competitive.
My impression is that Krugman has been there since 2015. Did a scan through some of his old columns, like this one:
The point is that we shouldn’t ask whether the G.O.P. will eventually nominate someone in the habit of saying things that are demonstrably untrue, and counting on political loyalists not to notice. The only question is what kind of scam it will be.
Krugman has been odd lately.
After spending decades slavishly carrying water for the moneyed class, he’s been on a notable anti-Trump lately.
Which implies two possibilities - either he’s finally developed some principles and integrity at this late date, which is unlikely, or the moneyed class support for Trump isn’t quite as universal as the broligarch stranglehold on social media has made it appear…
If the rich were all in on Trump, one must suspect that the dems would have a much harder time fundraising whenever elections come around.
Yeah. Unless they were paid to lose?
The very richest are — but the professional class, which can shell out $3000 every few years, isn’t. And the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is almost exactly a billion dollars. It’s still very doable for Democrats to raise the kind of money it takes to be competitive.
Krugman leaving the NYTimes may partly explain his newfound candor
My impression is that Krugman has been there since 2015. Did a scan through some of his old columns, like this one:
That hasn’t been my experience reading his columns, you got some examples of this?
That said, Krugman says the opinion editor for the last 4 years had interfered with his work, toning him down and adding false equivalences.
So his Substack is basically “Paul Krugman Unleashed” which it turns out is pretty glorious. Example: his “Health Insurance is a Racket” post starts off with a bit of Saint Luigi art.