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Paul Krugman on the Trump-Musk feud - Must Read [1]
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Date: 2025-06-06
Paul Krugman is not a happy man.
So, I have a fully written piece ready to post about the destruction of U.S. science. But who would read it today? It will hold, while I talk about Trump and Musk.
Now, Trump and Musk deserve whatever is coming, good and hard. But don’t let the schadenfreude of this psychodrama distract you from the fundamental point — America has fallen into a deep pit of corruption.
Krugman gets right to the point. What seems to have gotten lost in all the drama and atrocities is the core issue:
… The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt enterprise, with the president in a position to hand out personal favors or engage in personal acts of vengeance. And everyone takes it for granted that both men are right. Musk’s only mistake was in underestimating the depths of Trump’s lack of principles, imagining that he was the kind of corrupt politician who stays bought, as opposed to a guy who always breaks his promises the moment it seems expedient to do so. In short, we no longer have rule of law, just rule by the Leader’s whims. We have abandoned everything America was supposed to stand for.
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Paul Krugman cuts to the bone with this conclusion. It strips away all of the noise and confusion and provides a touchstone to make sense of what is happening.
Read the whole thing. It’s not long, and Krugman has provided a clear and simple summation of where we now are. Further, he calls out the Republican Party for enabling all of this.
“You don’t have to love the Democratic Party to recognize that it does, in fact, expel politicians who engage in egregious corruption.”
The late Kevin Drum still has the last word on the GOP.
Krugman closes by warning Democrats not to reach out to Musk now that he’s split from Trump. That puts me in mind of Maxim 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
And here we are.
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