Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The P-S paper doesn't exactly explain why authoritarians like Trump and Bolsonaro have refused to deal with Covid; it suggests that they might have various reasons, and that their belief that they can deny reality empowers them to refuse action 2/ https://t.co/GeB7DwQKWn — PolitiTweet.org

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This was a good post, and the Pozen- Scheppele paper it relies on is eye-opening (Kim was my office neighbor at Princeton, and posted about Hungary on my blog). But I think there's more to add 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

The NYT expose on Trump and coronavirus paints an extraordinary picture of malicious failure. Which gives me an ex… https://t.co/uyP4lf4Bz9

Posted Jan. 1, 2021

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This is clearly right. But I might somewhat speculatively add one specific reason why authoritarians don't want to deal with disasters: a punitive mindset. That is, people like Trump get satisfaction from hurting people, not helping them. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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