Krugman on Substack: Monsters

[femmedem]

"...It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.

At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

I wish I could believe that the last few weeks will be the last straw, but I don’t. To be honest, I wish I believed in Hell, because if it did exist, the enablers would be going there along with the monsters.

What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare — and we must do all we can to make it happen."

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/monsters?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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1. this:

[CTyankee]

2. I have never heard Krugman write this way in all the years I've read and followed him!

He's my favorite Econ professor and I would have LOVED taking an Econ course he taught! And Economics can be a pretty daunting course of study! I took one Econ course in grad school -- supposedly one for an Art History major and other non-Econ majors - and that was pretty awful.

But I have a little crush on Krugman. And when he writes, I listen!

[femmedem]

3. I've never heard Krugman write this way, either. He's meeting the moment.

Which doesn't surprise me: I've always been a fan of his, too.