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Must-read reminder from Paul Krugman today [1]

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Date: 2025-01-20

Dr. Krugman has a short post today that gets right to the point.

Here’s how it starts:

The Lies of the Powerful are still Lies

Today is a terrible day, and I won’t inflict a long post on readers. Let me instead make just one point, then get out of your inbox.

The point is this: Trump ran a campaign based entirely on lies, and his victory doesn’t make those lies true. No, the price of bacon didn’t quadruple or quintuple. No, America isn’t experiencing a vast wave of crime driven by immigrants.

Many people and institutions should and I hope will engage in soul-searching over why those lies succeeded — Democratic strategists, of course, but also news organizations and for that matter anyone trying to inform the public, myself included.

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