Paul Krugman

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And Greg Sargent offers an answer: Trump's advisers panicked when they realized that his Two Minutes Hate looked bad on TV 6/ https://t.co/nBlOZfy83D — PolitiTweet.org

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Both men come across as self-centered and self-indulgent. Eyes on the prize, guys. Single-payer types should be able to admit that there are other routes; non-single-payer types should admit that single-payer works where it has been applied. And trash-talk is just bad 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Sanders, then, is trying to enforce a purity test that is really not helpful. But Biden is behaving badly, too – arguably worse – with scurrilous attacks on M4A that echo GOP scare tactics. That is very definitely not OK 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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So Sanders is attacking the proposal as a giveaway to bad guys, and doubling down on his claim that nothing but Medicare for All will do. But while there's a case for M4A, many countries achieve universal coverage while preserving private insurance 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And it's actually pretty good. It would go a long way toward achieving truly universal coverage, and its public option would definitely reduce the power of the insurance industry. Charles Gaba has more 3/ https://t.co/aquWBiNqC9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden has come out with a health proposal that he's billing as an extension of Obamacare, which it sort of is – but it's a much more dramatic expansion than his own rhetoric makes it sound like 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The Biden-Sanders spat over health care is depressing, and reflects badly on both men 1/ https://t.co/2P4pLwuGbm — PolitiTweet.org

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But seriously, while the usual suspects were insisting that Trump was playing 12-dimensional chess, it looks as if Trump's people themselves are seeing political disaster 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The worst, by the way, was (predictably) Grey Worm – I mean, Lindsey Graham – saying that it was about criticizing Trump, not the color of their skins. Does that mean I have to go back to Utica? 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This time, while there is of course no apology or admission of going too far, we're seeing desperate gaslighting – he didn't say what he said, or mean what he obviously meant. In practice, they're admitting that Trump went too far 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Is it me, or is this the most abject political retreat we've seen in the Trump years? Normally, when people react with outrage to his bullying and racism, he just doubles down 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Live shot of Trumpists dealing with aftermath of "send them home" 1/ https://t.co/mdLntHx1BR — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/c1HEQdEjk2 via @NYTOpinion — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're Jewish and the use of "cosmopolitan" doesn't scare you, read some history — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kdrum: "Nearly everyone in California will pay less for insurance in 2020 than in 2019. This is what can happen when a state is actuall… — PolitiTweet.org

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Think Eddie Lampert at Sears. You may say that not all private equity is like that; on the other hand, Warren isn't trying to ban all private equity, just some of its practices 3/ https://t.co/xT9O6SIaig — PolitiTweet.org

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Old paper by Larry Summers (!) and Andrei Shleifer making that point. 2/ https://t.co/vhIvDs90W5 — PolitiTweet.org

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And another plan from @ewarren. Worth noting that over the years many economists have shared her concern that buyouts often lead to looting of firms, via breaking implicit contracts or use of control to siphon off assets 1/ https://t.co/EVU5zrj6Kq — PolitiTweet.org

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But of course the "populist" in the White House won't let anything like this happen 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And it's overwhelmingly popular, with a lot of support even from Republicans 2/ https://t.co/37T1rOp3n2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, Democrats are passing legislation. 1/ https://t.co/JuRYcu8wkS — PolitiTweet.org

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So its not surprising that we've had a moderate growth bump. The thing is, we could have had that long ago, when we really needed it – but the GOP pretended to care about deficits 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks to the tax cut but also the GOP relaxing austerity now that they have their own guy in office, we've had quite a lot of fiscal stimulus. Here's the CBO estimate of the cyclically adjusted budget deficit 4/ https://t.co/aEOSJHiiwW — PolitiTweet.org

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They use documentary evidence to isolate fiscal stimulus that was NOT in response to trouble, and finds that in those cases it's expansionary -- a result very relevant to the Trump economy 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The big problem with using historical data here is that stimulus is often a response to adverse shocks, which means that it can have a spurious correlation with poor performance; it's as if you said that since people with headaches take aspirin, aspirin causes headaches 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a very well-done review of the evidence on the effects of fiscal expansion. 1/ https://t.co/Q8EIjZM8eN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ewarren: Good. https://t.co/8buEJGkW32 — PolitiTweet.org

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How could that party have become OK with racism? It's a huge mystery 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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That would be the Ronald Reagan who talked about welfare queens driving Cadillacs, a "strapping young buck" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps, who kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia MS, where civil rights activists were murdered 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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People asking what happened to the party of Ronald Reagan. Good question 1/ https://t.co/UFC92u176C — PolitiTweet.org