Republican 'Cowards' Are Empowering The 'Crazies,' Rages Paul Krugman
Conspiracy theorists railing about “rigged” elections and calling climate change a “hoax” are bad enough. Just as threatening are Republican “cowards” who empower the frightening fringe, economist Paul Krugman argued Thursday in an opinion piece for The New York Times.
“When we talk about the GOP’s moral descent, we tend to focus on the obvious extremists, like the conspiracy theorists who claim that climate change is a hoax and Jan. 6 was a false flag operation,” Krugman wrote.
“But the crazies wouldn’t be driving the Republican agenda so completely if it weren’t for the cowards, Republicans who clearly know better but reliably swallow their misgivings and go along with the party line,” he added. “And at this point crazies and cowards essentially make up the party’s entire elected wing.”
Krugman made the point that this isn’t a new phenomenon, writing that when they were both competing for the GOP presidential nomination, George H.W. Bush dismissed Ronald Reagan’s claim that tax cuts would magically pay for themselves as “voodoo economics.” But Bush came around once he became Reagan’s vice president — as did almost all Republicans when Donald Trump pitched the same crackpot theory, Krugman noted.
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