Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Do people fully appreciate the economic implications of the new Covid-19 surge? And how it interacts with policy? It's pretty grim 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The ACA was passed TEN years ago. The GOP has had that long to come up with an alternative, and never has, because there isn't one. — PolitiTweet.org

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After 10 years (!) Republicans haven't come up with an alternative to the ACA, because there isn't one. If you want to cover preexisting conditions, there are only 2 ways: single payer or something that looks a lot like Obamacare https://t.co/5PsVusrWoA — PolitiTweet.org

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The initial surge in NY and vicinity reflected a combination of bad luck and policy mistakes. What's going on now is pure bad policy; Sunbelt politicians did this to their constituents https://t.co/yVOJ7uB6II — PolitiTweet.org

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I think we have a winner in the contest for America's Worst Governor. A month ago DeSantis was considered a rising star in the GOP, which says a lot about the party https://t.co/ki9jgyq6oU — PolitiTweet.org

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A failed reopening: OpenTable reservations nationally and in Houston (that spike was Father's Day) https://t.co/PVnnZEV3dV — PolitiTweet.org

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Where do we go to get apologies from the DeSantis apologists? Have any of them admitted error, or engaged in any soul-searching? — PolitiTweet.org

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If we actually had a president, If the GOP actually cared about governing, the Covid-19 explosion in the Sunbelt would lead to a course change. As it is, we're ruled by people who can't admit error and never learn. This is going to be apocalyptic. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lighter — well, heavier — side of pandemic. I'm trying to undo my own initial gains; my dress shirts almost fit again https://t.co/V1i5wGOCcv — PolitiTweet.org

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This headline — which doesn't reflect the article's content — is the kind of thing today's column was pushing back against. The virus isn't defying efforts at control; it's soaring in GOP-led states that refused to try and control it https://t.co/fxLoq0YWk4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't bothsides this pandemic. America's epic, lethal fail was driven by the fecklessness of an anti-science party that didn't want to face reality https://t.co/mYAz77G3IJ — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems to me that neither economic nor political expectations have really taken this emerging nightmare into account 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And here's FL — where DeSantis has been trying to suppress the data, but truth is coming out anyway 2/ https://t.co/lM8TIyKCYj — PolitiTweet.org

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Arizona is in the spotlight for its runaway pandemic, and rightly so. But the rest of the Sunbelt isn't far behind. I've been focusing on the fraction of tests coming back positive, which is >22% in AZ — catastrophe territory. But here's Houston 1/ https://t.co/6Lib20AwWL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: The question, @PaulKrugman writes, "isn’t why 'America' has failed to deal effectively with the pandemic. It’s why the G.O.… — PolitiTweet.org

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In case you were wondering whether Dems will try to make use of Trump's childishness ... — PolitiTweet.org

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But, but, Fox News says only "lockdown liberals" think we have a problem — PolitiTweet.org

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And the positivity rate is soaring, now at 22%, which is total crisis level 2/ https://t.co/jCHB3xqLR7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump keeps claiming that we're only seeing more cases bc we're doing more testing. Meanwhile, testing in Arizona, currently the worst hotspot, is being overwhelmed 1/ https://t.co/uJ3P3iwZLB — PolitiTweet.org

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More broadly, bc Republicans tend to be the party of big business, and bc businesspeople are wrong assumed to know how to run the economy, they get a lot of undeserved credit. They're consistently favored on deficits, despite a history of blowing them up 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And Trump never had the kind of economic policy approval Bill Clinton had in his second term — approval that didn't stop Bush the Younger from winning the Electoral College 2/ https://t.co/QCZ4OGJPuI — PolitiTweet.org

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To be fair, the economy was pretty good in a macro sense before Covid-19 hit even if many left behind, and even if Trump didn't deserve credit; and people may see the pandemic economy as sui generis, which it sort of is 1/ https://t.co/Zf8VmwFRCA — PolitiTweet.org

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Remember how warm weather was supposed to make it go away? — PolitiTweet.org

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But he won't require face masks; all he's done is allow local governments to do it — PolitiTweet.org

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New briefing, "Oh what a lovely trade war", is up https://t.co/svcuYWKriz — PolitiTweet.org

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And here we are now 2/ https://t.co/f8pLeq0axT — PolitiTweet.org

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How deeply are the Trumpists in denial? This was Monday morning 1/ https://t.co/xDtVIlndXh — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the chart that I think best captures the extent of the US debacle. It adjusts both for population and for the fact that the US surge started later. And it's damning https://t.co/h1AtMRw3EI — PolitiTweet.org

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*wasn't* — PolitiTweet.org

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It's looking like the nightmare scenario is coming to pass. And it was "America" that wouldn't stay the course: the NY area has done what needed to be done. It's Trump and his allies who refused to get real 4/ — PolitiTweet.org