2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Krugman: Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine [View all]terrencebone
(11 posts)I can't be the only person here who received a letter from Senator Sanders last fall soliciting contributions to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. That Krugman would pass along a claim that Sanders doesn't support other Democrats just shows how blinded by partisanship he is.
Ironically, I came to support Bernie as a result of first supporting Elizabeth Warren based on reading of Krugman's blog. Because Krugman's columns were the only sane place in my daily newspaper during the build up to Bush's Iraq war and later, during Bush's second term attempt to cash in his "mandate" in order to privatize social security, I started reading his blog in 2009. I find his writing on economics enlightening and much of his political commentary (on the delusions of "bipartisanship" for instance) insightful. But when it comes to candidates, he has a preference for policy wonks over transformational figures that is practically a monomania. Remember that in 2008 his first choice was John Edwards and his last choice was Obama.
The possibility of politically revolutionary downticket effects is, in fact, one of the strongest arguments for Bernie Sanders.