Krugman: Trump is like the monster child who terrorizes a town in an episode of The Twilight Zone

[kpete]

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And like the 6-year-old boy in “It’s a Good Life,” everyone around Trump lives in terror of his wrath or of upsetting him. Krugman pointed to Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about former Pres. Barack Obama wiretapping Trump Tower or the failed healthcare bill that died in Congress without ever reaching a vote.

“Clearly, Trump and company should just let it go and move on to something else. But that would require a certain level of maturity — which is a quality nowhere to be found in this White House. So they just keep at it, with proposals everyone I know calls zombie Trumpcare 2.0, 3.0, and so on,” he said.

“In any case,” Krugman concluded, “I’d like to make a plea to my colleagues in the news media: Don’t pretend that this is normal. Let’s not act as if that thing released on Wednesday, whatever it was, was something like, say, the 2001 Bush tax cut; I strongly disapproved of that cut, but at least it was comprehensible. Let’s not pretend that we’re having a real discussion of, say, the growth effects of changes in business tax rates.”

“No, what we’re looking at here isn’t policy; it’s pieces of paper whose goal is to soothe the big man’s temper tantrums. Unfortunately, we may all pay the price of his therapy,” he said.

MORE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/living-in-the-trump-zone.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/krugman-trump-is-like-the-monster-child-who-terrorizes-a-town-in-an-episode-of-the-twilight-zone/

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I wish we could send him to the corn field.

[MFM008]

2. Billy Mummy(the kid) said the same thing

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[saidsimplesimon]

3. Thank you kpete

and thank you Paul Krugman.

Is that Ron Howard as a young boy? I have seen every episode of the Twilight Zone at least 3 times.

[JaneQPublic]

4. Billy Mummy -- same kid in "Lost in Space" (nt)

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Thanks Jane

[bigbrother05]

8. Danger Will Robinson - it is Billy Mumy, only 2 m's

[Kingofalldems]

6. He stole that from me and probably other DUers.

We were way ahead of him.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. The Twilight Zone

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity...
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.