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Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

4 Nov

Like so much of what has happened under Trump, the efforts to steal the election are both comical and sinister. Mobs demanding that they stop the count in MI, where *Biden is ahead* (why hasn't this race been called). But ... 1/

Attempts to stop the count in PA, where a huge number of legally cast ballots haven't yet been counted because *Republicans prevented an early count*.

Biden has, in fact, almost certainly won. But Trump could still steal this 2/

If he does, America as we know it is over. Are they really willing to go that far? 3/

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Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

4 Nov

So, what we know: Trump probably won't succeed in stealing this election, but he tried and is continuing to try. His partisan postmaster deliberately disrupted mail-in voting; now he's trying to stop the count of legal votes 1/

And the only reason those votes haven't yet been counted is that R legislators blocked early counting of votes that were mostly cast well before Election Day 2/

So we're in the middle of an attempted coup against democracy, which may not succeed in stopping Biden but may have played some role in control of the Senate. 3/

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Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

4 Nov

What a terrible election. As far as I can tell from the vote analysts, Biden is highly likely to pull this out — the outstanding votes in WI/MI/PA and, for different reasons, GA are likely to be very Democratic, he's probably won AZ and NV. But then what? 1/

The good news is that if Biden has in fact won, we've avoided an immediate collapse into authoritarianism. Yes, it was and is that dire. But will Biden be able to govern? 2/

He'll probably face a Republican Senate, which also means a rigged Supreme Court; and everything we know says that they'll be ruthless about sabotaging everything he does 3/

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Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

1 Nov

The final stages of the Trump campaign have involved a lot of flailing. He tried running against imaginary anarchist hordes; when that didn't work, he tried running against Hunter Biden's laptop; now he's running against evil doctors 1/

Trump's claim that the pandemic is basically being fabricated by money-grubbing physicians is grotesque; but it's not as random as it may seem. The shifting politics of doctors are a window into how both America and the GOP are changing 2/ nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/…

Doctors used to be very Republican. Back in 1961 the American Medical Association urged doctors' wives (hey, it was 1961) to bring their friends over to hear Ronald Reagan denounce Medicare 3/

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Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

31 Oct

Next week is going to be horrible, for multiple reasons. One reason I haven't seen mentioned much in the media has come up a lot in my discussions with Wall Street types: the personal desperation of the Trumpies if he loses 1/

Trump himself, of course, faces likely financial ruin from his unpayable debts and perhaps criminal charges if he loses the shield of office. Quite a few officials will probably also face criminal charges for abuse of office, both political and financial 2/

But there's another, more mundane issue facing many lower-level Trump minions: they may not get the traditional soft landing available to former officials, in which you move into a cushy lobbying or industry job 3/

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