Paul Krugman

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My guess is that very few of the editors, etc who did this will admit to themselves, or anyone else, that they did anything wrong 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trying to understand why that happened seems to me a lot more important than second-guessing campaign strategy. But here's my worry 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not saying that this media fail was the whole story. But it was a *systematic* failure -- and it will probably happen again 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And then there was the way media allowed themselves to be played by Wikileaks, Comey, etc when it was obvious what was happening 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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What was covered, endlessly, was emails -- a bullshit issue, of zero relevance. More broadly, there was a sniggering hostility to HRC 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The news media devoted almost no time to policy, and literally zero to the most important issue, climate. How cld policy have mattered? 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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For one thing: when people say that HRC could have won if she had taken different policy positions, how was that supposed to have worked? 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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What we can say is that one contributor was an incredible case of media failure, which went far beyond false equivalence 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a lot of angry back and forth about how this happened, and I understand the motivation. But it's an argument that nobody will win 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Friday Night Music: Don't Give Up https://t.co/CYTVRfjGqE — PolitiTweet.org

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The Long Haul https://t.co/lPs9a5S50B — PolitiTweet.org

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Recriminations aren't the way to go. I will, however, repost one warning I offered that looks all too prescient https://t.co/ldee21MEzN — PolitiTweet.org

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Thoughts for the Horrified https://t.co/ExDtL88nvZ — PolitiTweet.org

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will actually happen. I hope not -- it would mean that our democracy was in dissolution. But surely it would be foolish to rule out 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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had real feeling behind them, and punishment is Trump's thing. So I'd put reasonable odds that, er, trumped-up charges against HRC 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Another big question will be judicial (or pseudo-judicial) pursuit of Hillary Clinton. It seems ludicrous, but those "lock her up" chants 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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does become actual policy very soon. And then we see how the news media cover it and the public reacts. I'm half-hopeful, half-despairing 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But harshness against immigrants is part of what Trump supporters demand -- the cruelty isn't a bug, it's a feature -- so it probably 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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These will by and large be very appealing, completely Americanized young people, which might make you expect soft-pedaling 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trying to think about the first flashpoint in the Trump years; and my guess is that it will be deportations of DREAMers. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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There are rules against this, of course, but would this Congress, this FBI, enforce them? I hope that restraint prevails. But God knows 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We know that DJT doesn't like being criticized, and often threaten the critics. Will he try to use the presidency to silence criticism? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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One really big question which I don't see being discussed much is what happens to civil liberties in the next few years. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Some readers have been reminding me of this, which unfortunately seems relevant https://t.co/KsUtSs8SPi — PolitiTweet.org

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Now What? Personal Thoughts https://t.co/mrnRU8ZSP0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Ending the American Romance https://t.co/yfXSte9lGe — PolitiTweet.org

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And there's still a lot of decency in the nation -- just not as dominant as I imagined. Time to rethink, for sure. But not to surrender 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Now it doesn't look very good, does it? But giving up is not an option. The world needs a decent, democratic America, or we're all lost 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a kind of American exceptionalism; other countries don't tell that kind of story about themselves. But I, like others, believed it 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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That is, we tell a story in which at times of crisis we always find the leader -- Lincoln, FDR -- and the moral courage we need. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org