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Paul Krugman is Terrified [1]

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Date: 2026-04-06  

This will not be a lengthy post. Over the last three days Dr. Paul Krugman has been stepping back from his usual posts to comment on things at a more basic level. Krugman is a smart person who talks to other smart people. When he’s raising alarms everyone else should pay attention.

Donald Trump isn’t sounding like himself.

Living in Hell.

The Terrorist in Chief

Conclusion from the latest post by Krugman:

This is not a time for Republicans who know — and most of them do know — that Trump has gone completely off the rails to remain obsequious for fear that he might endorse their primary opponents. One hopes that there are still a few genuine patriots left on that side of the aisle.

It is also not a time for Democrats to listen to strategists who urge them to stay silent on foreign policy and talk only about grocery prices. As it happens, that’s even bad political advice: Public disdain for Congressional Democrats has a lot to do with perceptions that they are weak and ineffectual, and ignoring Trump’s criminal madness will only reinforce that perception. And there has been no rally-around-the-flag effect from this war, which is growing more unpopular by the day.

But in any case, political considerations should take a back seat to civic duty.

The horrible but undeniable fact right now is that America has a terrorist president. And the whole world knows it. But we still have a chance to show the world that he is an aberration, that we are not a terrorist nation. And we can do that by standing up for the values that have always defined us.

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