NYT‘s Krugman: ‘Bernie Is Becoming a Bernie Bro’

[MrWendel]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/nyts-krugman-bernie-is-becoming-a-bernie-bro/

by Sam Reisman



New York Times columnist and prominent lefty Paul Krugman has run out of patience with Bernie Sanders.

“Mr. Sanders is starting to sound like his worst followers,” Krugman writes in a column published Friday. The senator from Vermont, he adds, has become a “Bernie bro,” a pejorative term for Sanders’ (male) supporters that usually implies some ugly cocktail of misogyny, petulance, and self-righteousness.

But Krugman’s column, entitled “Sanders Over the Edge,” is less about the candidate’s temperament and more about his the paltriness of his proposals.

He writes that “pounding the table about big banks misses the point,” and yet “going on about big banks is pretty much all Mr. Sanders has done. On the rare occasions on which he was asked for more detail, he didn’t seem to have anything more to offer. And this absence of substance beyond the slogans seems to be true of his positions across the board.”

Even if one overlooks the scantness of his platform, Krugman writes, “the way Mr. Sanders is now campaigning raises serious character and values issues.” He points to Sanders’ recent streak of hostility aimed at Hillary Clinton, emulating elements of his supporters that have forsworn ever voting for her should she become the nominee.

Is Mr. Sanders positioning himself to join the “Bernie or bust” crowd, walking away if he can’t pull off an extraordinary upset, and possibly helping put Donald Trump or Ted Cruz in the White House? If not, what does he think he’s doing?

NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/opinion/sanders-over-the-edge.html

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. .

[salinsky]

2. I've noticed during this primary season, that the candidates ...

... seem to be adopting characteristics common to their supporters, rather than the other way around.

That's not a good development for Bernie.

[Armstead]

6. Yes Krugman is becoming disingenuous and nasty

[LostOne4Ever]

9. Even worse for Hillary nt

[salinsky]

10. Not at all ...

Hillary supporters, in large part, are pragmatic people who enthusiastically support their candidate, but will also acknowledge the importance of electing a Democrat in the Fall - any Democrat.

Bernie supporters are unmoored from political realities and express a willingness to burn the party down if they don't get their way.

Like I said, it appears that the candidates are adopting characteristics of their followers.

[LostOne4Ever]

11. Oh wait...

[woolldog]

20. spot on, saul. nt

[shawn703]

3. Hillary surrogate shills for Hillary

News at 11

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. says the Keynesian economist

I guess he had to turn to political commentary

[beam me up scottie]

5. Krugman is starting to sound like a whiny Brock, he was petty and hateful towards Obama in 2008:

In a long screed in this morning’s New York Times, Krugman fulminates far and wide on the sins of the Obama camp. “I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody.” He believes that the Obama campaign is “dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. (Oh, really?) He finds it “saddening” how “many Obama supporters seem happy with the application of ‘Clinton rules’” which is, “the term a number of observers use for the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/krugman-claims-obama-supp_n_85999.html

Sad when you sell out and have to write hit pieces on politicians for attention.

[bigbrother05]

12. Here's an OP posted today on the 2008 article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511682434

Generally like PK, but his partisanship shows through at times.

[silenttigersong]

7. More Berni Bros here

[link:http:// http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/14/170-economists-bernie-sanders-plan-reform-wall-st-rein-greed.html|

[Ash_F]

8. I like Krugman, but I am starting to wonder where his money comes from.

[AgingAmerican]

13. Krugman is a now officially a troll

Her surrogates have evolved into rudderless trolls

[Fawke Em]

14. .

[Cali_Democrat]

15. K&R

[riversedge]

16. REC. and Thank you.

[Vinca]

17. Mr. Krugman seems to be thinking there is a press secretary job in his future.

Just this morning I read one of his Bernie attacks that was in direct contrast to what he had previously written which had entirely agreed with Bernie.

[whatchamacallit]

18. Haha fuck you Krugman

[Beacool]

19. The minute he called her not qualified to be president, he crossed a line of no return.

The candidate sets the tone and his escalated attacks will do more harm to him in the long run than her, it only serves to engender more resentment and animosity. The math is against him.

[rachacha]

21. Krugman: Another Obama-hating Hillbully

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html