As President, he should lead by example.
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…
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:
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.
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.
After spending decades slavishly carrying water for the moneyed class
That hasn’t been my experience reading his columns, you got some examples of this?
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.
Sounds horrible, Y’all need to sit down and play luigi’s mansion to help make yourself feel better
Between encouraging the consumption of raw milk, the anti-vaccine policies, defunding of FEMA, leaving the WHO, and censorship of public health information he’s going to wipe out a significant portion of the population.
The feeling’s mutual.
