I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

What does this even mean? I think you're pointing out that Trump and Republicans don't even pretend to engage on the level of serious policy analysis anymore, because Trump actively disdains expertise and most Republicans are a bunch of ideologues more interested in cutting taxes and getting re-elected than in whether government works, and so Krugman has no one to engage with. If so, it's a fair point, but framing it as a criticism of Krugman only makes sense in a world what you value is politically relevance.

Read Krugman's Twitter feed. He's like a left wing Alex Jones at the moment. The Russians and Comey fixed the election, Trump's a Manchurian candidate. It's cuckoo pants shit.