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Posted On: 02/21/2018 9:00:17 PM
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Oh My Krugman!
from a Great Krugman Thread:
One thing I'm seeing among moderate Republicans -- there are maybe two dozen of them, none in Congress, but are fairly prominent in the commentariat -- is nostalgia for the 1990s, which they remember as a far better era.
And you can see why 1/ I mean, back then the GOP wasn't led by a personally repellent vulgarian, it was led by fine upstanding open-minded gentlemen like Newt Gingrich.
2/ Significant figures in the party didn't peddle conspiracy theories about high school students and other victims of gun massacres; they discussed substantive issues like Hillary Clinton's murder of Vince Foster 3/ They didn't take their cues from Breitbart; they relied on respectable media organizations like the Drudge Report
4/ OK, you get my point: Republicans didn't go off the deep end in 2017, or even after Obama was elected. The moral and intellectual rot goes back at least a generation; it's just that people pretended not to notice 5
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