2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Krugman endorses Single Payer and Medicare for All!!! [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)that it probably didn't matter which one wins (back in October). Now that Sanders has risen in the polls he says that Sanders' position on financial reform is "disturbing." One can't help but get the sense that he was punting with "they're both great" when he assumed Clinton would win, but is now talking about how problematic Sanders is now that he's risen in the polls. Also worth pointing out that he was in favor of Glass-Steagall (in the 10/16/15 column), but now (in the 1/19/16 blog post) says Glass-Steagall could cause us more problems.
Hard to tell at this point what things he actually believes, which things he says he believes because he thinks it hurts a particular candidate, and which things he theoretically believes but is ready to do a 180 and attack as soon as someone actually proposes we do them.