Paul Krugman is on fire today.

[lapucelle]

"Now, anyone questioning Mr. Trump’s legitimacy will be accused of being unpatriotic — because that’s what people on the right always say about anyone who criticizes a Republican president. (Strangely, they don’t say this about attacks on Democratic presidents.) But patriotism means standing up for your country’s values, not pledging personal allegiance to Dear Leader".

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"So let’s be thankful that John Lewis had the courage to speak out. It was the patriotic, heroic thing to do. And America needs that kind of heroism, now more than ever."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/with-all-due-disrespect.html

[longship]

1. Here's Paul! He's pissed!

[lapucelle]

10. Well done, longship, well done.

[dalton99a]

2. Krugman is right.

[George II]

3. He's been "telling it like it is" for decades. BTW....

...how is it that this OP has over 1100 views and only two (now three) replies?

[Wounded Bear]

13. how is it that this OP has over 1100 views and only two (now three) replies?

Perhaps because it was posted before?

[ffr]

4. It's important to note that John Lewis was one of those who stormed out of meeting

last week, IIRC, FBI briefing.

If he is now saying passionately that Donald Trump is not the legitimate PEOTUS, I think we call can gather, given his outspokenness on other issues important to America, that he's broadcasting what he cannot tell us was said in that meeting, but that if we too had been exposed, we would all be saying the exact same thing.

Hillary Clinton and America have been the victim of a coup d'etat, once reserved in history for Banana Republics. We are living that history as we speak.

I am not entertained by the crumbling of America the Great.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[byronius]

6. Krugman would make a great President, frankly.

At this point, however, I would accept my neighbor's kid. Or the postman. Or anybody but this Freakshow.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. Or as Jon Stewart said, Mr T. n/t

[DK504]

16. Excellent idea.

I heard once that the people that should be in office will never run.

[airplaneman]

8. I used to like Krugman a lot

but somewhere along the line he did not seem to be on my side on a number of issues. I feel like I am not sure how liberal he is as he seems to be bought out on a few issues. Even so I would take Krugman over Trump any day.
-Airplane

[Wounded Bear]

14. Meh, as an economist, he's less liberal than many people...

Economists, like judges, just naturally tend to be a bit conservative.

Krugmann is pretty honest, for the most part.

[Gothmog]

9. K&R

[sheshe2]

11. Go get them Paul.

K&R

John Lewis is a hero.

[bora13]

12. campfire ghost story

Stories about this election and all fallout will be told for centuries around campfires of the most craven summer camp kids.

[lapucelle]

18. Twenty years from now, BoBs will be hemming and hawing

when their daughters / grand daughters ask, "Why were they allowed to do that to the first woman who ran for president?"

After Watergate, you couldn't find a single person who voted for Richard Nixon, and even today the subject gets quickly changed when you remind someone that he was a proud Naderite who refused to settle for the Nobel Peace Prize winning "lesser of two evils" back in 2000.

[Sunlei]

15. I don't like the way almost every one of his articles gives the Rs the best ammo to attack Ds.

Almost always its the first sentence. He did that a lot with Hillary. Rs expect him to play his defense game & give them the focus RW line to use, "Now, anyone questioning Mr. Trump’s legitimacy will be accused of being unpatriotic"

Ds need people to play OFFENSE, his articles never did.

[calimary]

17. Paul Krugman speaks for me, too.

He did, back during bush/cheney, as well.