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                                              November 21, 2016

I've been a Krugman fanboy for many
years now, but I finally got over it            And it's just as well,
in the 2016 primary season--                    all the black coffee
                                                was getting to me.
His attacks on Bernie Sanders (and Bernie
supporters) were remarkably nasty, and
severely lacking in intellectual integrity.        
I don't always agree with Krugman in every      And back in the 2008 primary,  
detail, but I previously I'd always been        he was also pro-Hillary, but   
able to see the logic in his arguments.         then he was arguing that the     
                                                details of Hillary's health     
  This time around, despite the fact            plan were better than Obama's.
  that Bernie Sanders was advocating            Back then, it bothered me that    
  the kind of policies that Krugman has         he refused to pay attention to  
  been in favor of for years, Krugman           people like myself who cared  
  stood up and repeatedly attacked              about Hillary's pro-Iraq war    
  Bernie.  He referred to him as a              vote, but I could see why he    
  "demagogue" on multiple occasions,            cared about the details of    
  and repeatedly dismissed his                  their health care plans.      
  supporters as "Bernie Bros".                                    
                                                (I had the feeling-- he
                                                barely stated this, if at
                                                all-- that he worried that a
                                                black man would have trouble
                                                getting elected... i.e. he
                                                thought Hillary was safer.)
     UNICORNY
                                                But Obama did win-- and he
                                                revised his health care plan--
                                                and now in retrospect Krugman
                                                regards him as a successful
                                                president.  One might wonder
                                                why you would trust Krugman's
                                                judgment *this* time...
    GERALD_FRIEDMAN
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