Krugman Tries to Denigrate Trump, Stumbles, and Flips Out
If you thought Paul Krugman was a bad economic analyst, wait until you see how he does as a political analyst. Lately he has devoted several articles in the New York Times to accusing Trump of being a liar, but he trips up over and over again. I can’t tell whether it’s on his grammar or his argumentative logic, but he always ends up falling down the black hole of his extremism. His main contribution to the Democratic campaign was an empirical demonstration that Kamala Harris is not a communist. This demonstration consisted of one line in his Times article: “Now, Harris obviously isn’t a communist.” In the previous sentence of his article, he had accused Elon Musk of not knowing what “literally” means for having said that Harris is “literally a communist.” Does Krugman know what “obviously” means?
Krugman, who is now also a philologist, announced in his article last Monday “the second in an occasional series about Donald Trump’s statements and language and what’s at stake in the election.” The author says that Trump offered on Thursday before the Detroit Economic Club “a speech of a rambling, at times incoherent speech.” However, Trump’s speech was quite clear and not incoherent at all, although perhaps Krugman doesn’t like a candidate to really know what he is saying when he talks about the economy. In that respect, he liked Biden, who never knew what he was talking about, better. Kamala has already been told by her advisers that whenever it comes to talking about the economy, just open your mouth wide and yell “Hahahahahahaha!”
I suspect the Nobel economist didn’t like that Trump was so clear in proclaiming an irrefutable fact: “Four years ago when I left office, we had no inflation. We had virtually, just think of it, we had virtually no inflation for the entire four years. When people made money, that was really their money.”
The former president also made a point of telling the people of Detroit things that really matter to them: “I’m here today to talk about a subject that has always been very dear to my heart, saving the US auto industry.” After praising the U.S. auto industry and beautiful machines like the Mustang, the Corvette, the Pontiac GTO, he said, “It was part of the American dream, but after decades and decades of Michigan auto workers giving our nation their very best, our leaders in Washington did their very worst for them.” He added, “They were terrible. You lost nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs after globalist politicians gave us the twin disasters of NAFTA, which I terminated and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.” Trump’s speech touched on many other issues, but all with the kind of crispness that overwhelms Krugman.
On Oct. 3, the New York Times’ economist-in-waiting, in the midst of his series of anti-Trump articles, asserted that “[A]t this point, Trump’s campaign rests heavily on made-up stuff. And he clearly seems to believe that he needs new material, because the old material seems to be losing some of its effectiveness.” However, in his hate-to-Trump piece this Monday, there was a miracle of contortionism that makes him almost ready for victory in the next Olympics: “As many observers have noted” (observers from the New, the York, and the Times, I suppose), “Trump routinely peddles a grim picture of America that has little to do with reality.” The author continues, “What I haven’t seen noted as much is that his imaginary dystopia seems to be, in large part, a pastiche assembled from past episodes of dysfunction. These episodes apparently became lodged in his brain, and perhaps because he’s someone who is not known for being interested in the details and who lives in a bubble of wealth and privilege, they never left.”
Then, on Oct. 3, he said that Trump needs new material “because the old material seems to be losing some of its effectiveness,” and on Oct. 14, he claimed that Trump only cares about things from the past because he “has Become Unmoored in Time.”
Sometimes I suspect that my dear Paul Krugman would do well to read his own articles once in a while.
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