Trump voters 'going to get brutally scammed' by 'terrible' economic ideas: Paul Krugman
Source: The Hill
01/15/25 2:52 PM ET
Economist Paul Krugman argues that voters who cast ballots for President-elect Trump’s “terrible” economic agenda are going to get “brutally scammed.” Krugman joined The New Republic’s podcast “The Daily Blast” for an episode that aired Tuesday, where he discussed Trump’s major economic overhaul plans, including hiking up tariffs on international trading partners and cutting taxes for some Americans.
“Trump has really radical policy ideas,” Krugman said. “I, obviously, think they’re terrible.” Krugman, a Nobel laureate and longtime New York Times columnist, argued that the U.S. economy is doing well in its post-pandemic recovery, even as Americans consistently said they didn’t think the same. He also argued that people’s perceptions of the economy shift based on whether the president is a member of their preferred party.
“We see this immediately switch in economic sentiment among Democrats and Republicans, where Republicans now say the economy is great, Democrats now say they’re worried about inflation and the impact that could result from Trump’s policies,” Krugman said. “We suddenly switched from a plurality of people saying they were worse off, which wasn’t true, but that’s what people felt, to a plurality saying that they’re better off, which I think is, again Republicans saying ‘Oh, now that Trump is president-elect everything is great,’” he added later.
Krugman said a lot of people who voted for Trump, and small business owners specifically, are “going to get brutally scammed” by the proposed economic plan and the current outlook on the economy. “Small business people are the people that he’s all through his life hired as contractors and then not paid, right?” he said. “Scamming people like that is what his whole life has been around.”
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The difference is ... we saw it coming before the election. We saw through Chump's lies and bullshit. The MAGAs could have seen it too, if they'd been willing to listen. So it WILL BE a scam from their point of view. They are walking into it totally unprepared. Many of those small businesses are going to fail in the next couple of years.
Thanks Paul Krugman for explaining this so well. I'm pretty sure the MAGAs still aren't listening.
that for the first time in over 50 years repugs finally wake up to the gas-lighting and realize that
they are actually screwing themselves voting R and it kills the reQublican party for 20/30 years.
