The same deranged, former columnist for The New York Times who spent years praising President Joe Biden as the best thing since sliced bread is now trying to sound the alarm on so-called “corruption” within the Trump administration.
“Wake Up and Smell the Corruption,” read the June 6 load of Substack blather from Bidenomics simp-in-chief Paul Krugman. He capitalized on the ongoing feud between X owner Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to underscore his half-cocked thesis:
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.
Did Krugman forget that the internet he claimed in 2005 wouldn’t really amount to anything still exists? Krugman is literally on record calling Biden in 2024 “the best president of my adult life” just months before CNN anchor Jake Tapper released his book confirming what anyone with eyes knew about the corrupt cabal that covered up the former president’s cognitive decline for years.
But now Krugman is supposedly ready to convince everyone he knows what “corruption” smells like, right? In comparing Republicans to Democrats, Krugman actually had the nerve to put in writing that “[y]ou don’t have to love the Democratic Party to recognize that it does, in fact, expel politicians who engage in egregious corruption.” Talk about writing while under the influence! We say this politely to Paul, with tears in our eyes: Gag us with a spoon!
Krugman spewed that Musk, whom he called “evil,” got hoodwinked by Trump because he supposedly underestimated “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.” He concluded his outlandish screed by pontificating that it was “[b]etter to see if there is anyone left in the G.O.P. who is finally ready to take a stand on behalf of democracy and law. But don’t get your hopes up.”
Does that same Krugman standard apply to the Democrats in the White House and in Congress who knew Biden’s brain was “a-broke. She’s a no-good” and yet did their utmost to conceal his deteriorating condition from the public? Did any Democrats push the president to stop letting his family use his high office as an influence-peddling piggy bank? To use Krugman’s own words, “don’t get your hopes up.”
But what more can you expect from a flailing has-been like Krugman? He also once had the gall to accuse Trump of “junk economics” on trade deficits, despite being the same person who spent months trying to convince the country that the 40-year high inflation crisis under Biden was “transitory,” that America would witness a Biden boom, and who told Biden before his inauguration, “Don’t Worry About Inflation.”
Either Krugman’s brain is “a-broke” too like his favorite president or he’s the embodiment of the very smelly “corruption” he’s projecting onto his political opponents. Take your pick.