As liberal critics of the Trump presidency have scrambled for traction since January, one historical analogy seems ubiquitous: “If you want a model for what’s happening to America,” economist Paul Krugman wrote in April, “think of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.” From the New York Times to the Guardian to a slew of Substacks, commentators have presented Donald Trump as the U.S. incarnation of the Great Helmsman.
Like Mao Zedong, these pundits say, Trump is mobilizing an insurrectionary base to destroy bureaucratic and cultural elites, has created a cult of personality in which the leader’s will overrides all else, and is brutally intolerant of his ideological enemies.
What are we a bunch of Asians?!
‘‘I met Paul Krugmean once and this is the most stupid person I have ever met. He doesn’t understand anything’’ -Michael Hudson
This is the dude who made some shitty comment on Isabella Weber when she wrote a opinion piece on considering Price Control and its effectiveness to control inflation, he later apologize because the comments he made were inflammatory and not really talking about the substance of her argument