Sharp piece by Paul Krugman. nytimes.com/2022/02/22/opi…
I'll also say, to one of Krugman's points: I was skeptical that corporate greed is what drove inflation, but I've moved more towards the view that cultural permission to raise prices is helping to sustain it. 
To his broader point: one political issue Democrats face is that a lot of mainstream institutions lean quite liberal.
To conservatives, that looks like an unalloyed advantage: All the institutions are liberal!
To conservatives, that looks like an unalloyed advantage: All the institutions are liberal!
In reality, it's more mixed. It means that liberals in those institutions have important professional reasons to constantly prove independence from Democrats to fortify their mainstream credentials.
For Democrats, that means a constant drumbeat of "Even the liberals at X" criticizing them, and looking for reasons to criticize them.
Fox News, by contrast, doesn't have such cross-cutting incentives.
Fox News, by contrast, doesn't have such cross-cutting incentives.
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