This guy is so wrong on so many things I still find it stunning that he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics.
From the NY Times of 03/16/2020:
Step Aside for Powell and Pelosi
Republicans, it turns out, can’t do economic policy
America’s catastrophically inadequate response to the coronavirus can be attributed largely to bad short-term decisions by one man. And I do mean short-term: At every stage, Donald Trump minimized the threat and blocked helpful action because he wanted to look good for the next news cycle or two, ignoring and intimidating anyone who tried to give him good advice.
OK - we get it. Orange Man is BAD. Seriously, his Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting worse as time goes on. He needs to think about getting treatment before it is too late. President Trump's second four years of winning is going to send poor Paul over the edge.
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Trump disbanded the National Security Council’s pandemic response team in 2018, although he now, with his characteristic refusal to accept responsibility for anything, says that he knew nothing about it. And he has in general staffed his administration with obsequious toadies who never tell him anything he doesn’t want to hear.
BZZZZTTT! Absolutly wrong. The team was re-organised, not disbanded. The FAKE "story" was started by one person from the team who lost their job in the re-org. It was picked up by Jeff Bezos' Washington Post in 2018. Fast forward to today where they recant their story - from Red State:
WaPo Opinion Piece Debunks Another False Story: No, Trump Didn’t ‘Eliminate’ the Pandemic Response Office
Democrats and media have told multiple lies about the response by the Trump administration to the Wuhan coronavirus. They falsely claimed that Trump cut the CDC when the budget was actually increased. Democrats including Joe Biden claimed that he was muzzling scientists from talking about the virus response even as those same scientists like Dr. Anthony Fauci were very visible giving advice and information in press conferences.
Perhaps one of the biggest lies was saying that President Donald Trump had called the virus a hoax when in fact he said no such thing. What he said was their lies about his response, like the ones I just mentioned in the prior paragraph, were a “hoax.”
But there was another story that has gotten a lot of traction and really wasn’t debunked until today, although it should have been debunked by media earlier, if they had really been concerned about accuracy – that is that the Trump administration eliminated the “pandemic team” from the NSC in 2018.
One place in which it was pushed was the Washington Post, who pushed the claim in an opinion piece on Friday by Elizabeth Cameron, who ran the office under President Obama.
The person promoting the FAKE NEWS was the person who ran the org under the Obama administration and who was shown the door during its reorganization. No agenda there. The WaPo owned up to it a few days ago with this "opinion" piece.
Back to Mr. Krugman:
What’s now becoming clear is that when it comes to dealing with the economic fallout from Covid-19, the situation may be even worse. There are still some competent professionals holding senior positions at federal health agencies, who could give Trump good advice if he were willing to listen. But serious economic thinking has effectively been banned from this administration, if not the whole Republican Party. As far as I can tell, the Trump team is utterly incapable of formulating a coherent response to the gathering economic crisis.
And from here on, poor Paul goes off the rails. This is pure narrative. When you have no facts, push the narrative. They have nothing except the narrative and they are refusing to learn. They are shutting their eyes and ears and just wishing that the Bad Orange Man will just go away. Guess what, there are a lot more Bad Orange Men stacked up behind President Trump wanting our America to be out of the hands of the progressive globalists. The pendulum is swinging back again and our Nation is becoming better and stronger.
Go and read the rest of it if only from morbid fascination.
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