Liberal blogger Paul Krugman brags that he doesn’t read conservatives, which makes it totally unsurprising when he displays a total lack of understanding of conservative politics and arguments (here I cite three examples of his cluelessness).
Paul Krugman, liberal blogger, listens to a question during a luncheon at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong January 20, 2015. Reuters
Today in a typical Krugman piece (the argument is basically that academics are all Democrats because smart people are too smart to be Republicans) Krugman misapplies data to try and argue — in effect — that his sort of close-mindedness is totally justified. One of his errors is interesting, though, because it may be fairly typical amongst media folk who aren’t paying close attention: Krugman, a Nobel laureate in economics, posits that Donald Trump’s success in the polls represents “a sharp rightward … move by Republicans …”
Donald Trump is a longtime Democrat and a major donor to the Democratic Party. The centerpiece of his campaign is stripping away limits on federal power — not conservative. He proudly supports more eminent domain, along with Chuck Schumer, the New York Times, and the liberal justices on the Supreme Court. He’s favored single-payer healthcare. More serious commentators, Left and Right, have noted the strong argument that Trump is not a conservative.
The poll numbers bear this out. The latest CNN poll shows Trump leading by 30 points among moderate Republicans, and by only 14 among conservatives. A PPP survey found Trump’s strongest favorability among the “somewhat liberal” cohort.
Trump’s campaign is exceedingly demagogic and racially tinged. That’s a big part of how Krugman defines conservatism, and so he thinks Trump is a conservative.
Timothy P. Carney, the Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist, can be contacted at tcarney@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
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