Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So the basic story of most of the GOP establishment — and I don't think this is hyperbole — is that it considers the slaughter of innocent people an acceptable price to pay for lower taxes on profits and capital income 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The answer, surely is that while they aren't necessarily big supporters of white supremacy, they *are* big supporters of plutocracy. And catering to racism helps them cut taxes on rich people and in general tilt the economy against workers 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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My guess is that Moscow Mitch and other leading GOP figures aren't especially racist, and may even be slightly troubled by mass murder. But they stand firmly behind Trumpism. Why? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course Trump's racism and incitement to violence have played an important role in the rise of white supremacist terrorism (which we need to start calling by its proper name). But what about other Republicans? 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Commie? What year is it, again? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @greenhousenyt: For years, we’ve heard lots of discussion about American exceptionalism, but there's one type of exceptionalism that has… — PolitiTweet.org

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Some wonkish but tariffying thoughts on trade policy https://t.co/sX3QsdMV8z — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Trump's record of trying (sometimes successfully) to appoint grifters, deadbeats, and phonies to high office is surely unique. Why are these his kind of people? Oh, wait https://t.co/HKm1uQ2ky8 — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not much of a burger person; more of a pasta-with-red-wine person. So my question about alt-meat has been, can it make a Bolognese? And the answer, apparently, is yes! OK, I'm in https://t.co/7Q2MoUJiAD — PolitiTweet.org

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In fact, one encouraging thing about the Dem primary is that the top contenders actually are talking about the real issues while the style-over-substance candidates are getting nowhere. This is what a serious party looks like 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Williamson is all about moral values and spirituality -- but the social collapse of the eastern heartland, paralleling inner city problems of the past, shows that economic opportunity is the key to family values, not vice versa 4/ https://t.co/cBYGfEQ8PE — PolitiTweet.org

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But in addition to being unserious contenders, they're wrong about their signature issues. Yang is all about robots taking our jobs -- but he's kind of a typical tech person who imagines he knows econ. Productivity growth is slowing, not speeding up. 3/ https://t.co/BQ8Pz0JX4U — PolitiTweet.org

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Since the nominee is highly likely to be Biden, Warren, Harris, or maybe, just maybe, Sanders, why spend much time on Yang or Williamson? I guess the answer is that these not-gonna-happen candidates embody something the writer wants 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

There have been a number of recent opinion pieces about minor Dem contenders, which is in a way odd. This field has been winnowing pretty strongly; Nate Silver's take looks about right 1/ https://t.co/m1V7Vv6KxB https://t.co/FXESE0JS7n — PolitiTweet.org

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No doubt the Very Serious People, who have been oddly quiet in the face of trillion-dollar Trump deficits, will once again get all worked up about fiscal responsibility when a Dem takes power. But they should be ignored 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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What this means looking forward is that if a Democrat wins next year, she or he should feel free to propose a major infrastructure investment program and NOT worry much about how to pay for it. Deficit-financed investment is good economics in a low-rate world 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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These low, low rates are also far below anyone's estimate of the economy's long-run growth rate. And what this means is that the debt obsession that ruled policy discourse in 2010-2011 was totally wrong and destructive 3/ https://t.co/7Nh6WPmxkg — PolitiTweet.org

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These yields were already low last fall, but the plunge since then should basically be seen as investors capitulating, and admitting that Trumponomics won't give the economy any long-term boost 2/ https://t.co/BEyr4VPbJt — PolitiTweet.org

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So let's talk about the most pressing issue of the day: real bond yields (OK, not so pressing, but important). They have plunged dramatically; as of right now, just 0.19% 1/ https://t.co/SadC6shvyF — PolitiTweet.org

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Why Was Trumponomics a Flop? https://t.co/St8P0tf7LL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbouie: very strange to watch ostensibly neutral pundits just assume that its donald trump who is near the center of american politics… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is all on Trump. Investors hate his trade war, voters don't like it, clearly bad for the economy (10-year down to 1.89%, which tells the tale) But he remains convinced that he can bully China https://t.co/6X3xSZF9N5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mikedebonis: Asked about Trump's attacks on her birth city of Baltimore, @SpeakerPelosi suggests we ask Trump's "slumlord" son in law,… — PolitiTweet.org

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One important point about Trump's trade war: to a large extent it hasn't even reduced imports, just shifted them away from China to higher-cost sources. This trade diversion is a pure cost to the U.S. economy https://t.co/62GzM5fItz — PolitiTweet.org

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That was the Trump boom that was https://t.co/rD1ggzjqCq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnJHarwood: in explaining rate cuts, Fed Chair Powell cites weak manufacturing and business investment data these are things Trump a… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Over the years there have been many, many angry declarations from conservatives that Reagan wasn't a racist. They were all beside the point; what mattered was that he exploited racism, ruthlessly. As it turns out, however, he *was* a racist https://t.co/pZaWBBHazU — PolitiTweet.org

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The Bernie people want you to believe that only a Bernieish plan is truly progressive, for obvious reasons. But it's not true, and other progressives shouldn't let themselves be bullied 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Single-payer is workable; so is a well-designed public-private hybrid. But a hybrid system has a much better chance of being a winning election issue, not because it's centrist, but because people are wary of disruption 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And I'm fine with the idea that a plan for universal coverage *should* be a Democratic litmus test. What we're talking about is tactics: *how* to get universal coverage, in a way that's both workable and politically viable 2/ — PolitiTweet.org