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Krugman no doubt sees Bernie as under-informed and basing his economic policies on a sketchy unsound foundation. He probably sees Bernie's supporters as being equally misguided and ill-informed on economics. So Bernie's campaign would look to him like arousing a rabble who would do more damage than good.
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This more than anything is because Paul Krugman in not a politician and is under-informed about movement politics, so he's basing his viewpoint on a sketchy unsound foundation.― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3:55 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't get this. seems to me so far Krugman was vindicated about Bernie? he did endorse her eventually, but lost bitterly and his campaign is now at risk of losing them election (in anticipation of someone citing that 90% of Bernie people will vote for HRC stat see these tweets https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/757954632601796608). I think Krugman's politics in a vague sense are closer to Bernie than Hillary; he's more of a big gov social democrat than a neoliberal (though he was more neoliberal in the 90's), gave daps to syriza. and he gets politics as much as any of us...
krugman quit his prestigious university job so he could bum around nyc, no way he's in it for a clinton admin job.plus he'd obviously be a terrible pick for one since it would create a political firestorm.
― iatee, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:24 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he may have been pissing off some other people at Princeton
re: political firestorm you could say the same of Summers, who is clearly gunning for a spot and has been playing a wolf-in-sheeps-clothing good progressive boy for like 4 years
apparently Krug was *really* expecting to get a CEA chair or something under Clinton #1 and his retreat into op-eds followed that
and idk, it just doesn't quite fit, he was easy on Corbyn, chummy with Varoufakis & co...
― flopson, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
yeah he doesn't understand how economic progressivism emerged through popular struggle rather than economists. sad!
― Treeship, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
― flopson, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
i mean, it's clearly not helping. not to say his supporters would've been in thrall to Clinton but he got everyone all het up
― flopson, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Logically assume whatever conclusion you want, Bernie obviously got people all riled up for nothing, there were some legit criticisms of his politics, and he lost. How is Krugman proven wrong?
It's cool that he ran and there's no way he could have foreseen that Trump would a) win b) be as popular as he now seems to be but in hindsight it all looks fucked up
― flopson, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
three years pass...
eight months pass...