I said some time ago that Democrats are remarkably poor losers, and in his blog post Tuesday Paul Krugman provides a sterling example of my point.
He talking about the Carrier jobs that Trump prevented from being moved to Canada, and starts out by saying 75,000 workers lose their jobs every day and Trump only saved 800 jobs so we should not bother reporting on saving them because it's trivial, nothing more than a "rounding error" on the national jobs picture. I doubt those 800 people and their families feel the same way. Anyway, he then reveals that he's saying that the media should not report on saving those 800 jobs because it was Donald Trump that did it, not Hillary Clinton.
He goes on to say that not only was it trivial, it actually was not a good thing. It was really something called "crony capitalism," which is a bad thing. Well, it's a bad thing when a Republican does it. Receiving $250,000 for a ten-minute speech is also crony capitalism, but it's okay when a Democrat does it.
He is filled with dread that we are going to be having to read news stories about Donald Trump for the next four years because of "a descent into banana republic governance." Or maybe for the same reason that we read Barack Obama stories for eight years.
It's a really nasty piece, and richly illustrates precisely what's wrong with the Democratic Party.
I think they are poor losers certainly this time around... their anointed "it's-hers-to-lose" candidate actually lost. They didn't pick up enough seats in the House or Senate to get a majority. To borrow a phrase from Pres. Obama, "the election is over and you lost".
ReplyDeleteThis should be a good thing for Mr. Krugman, it gives him at least 4 years of column material. (and of course, blog material for Jayhawk, if he can stand it).
Oh and yes, he does seem a bit of a hypocrite.