Monsters And their enablers are accessories to murder: Paul Krugman

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Monsters And their enablers are accessories to murder

Paul Krugman

Jan 25

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I was working on another wonkish post about China’s trade surplus when the news about Alex Pretti’s murder broke. I’ll put that post up at some point, but not today.

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.

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1. The really sad, anger inducing part?

They don't see themselves as monsters, they see the rest of us as monsters. They have somehow spent the last 40 or more years convincing and believing themselves that they are the saviors and the country needs saving from those who are the real saviors, the ones who walk the actual walk.