Krugman is clueless about the state of the right. And his column indicates that he focused on the extremists and ignores the mainstream. Sounds like some of the people who comment to this blog.

No wonder you thought the column was spot on. It’s just as off-base as many of your comments.

…” The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.”

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! But, Professor Krugman, I have more faith in our young people and their voting intelligence than perhaps you do! The really crazy right-wing whackjobs I see (wielding Obama-as-Hitler signs and yelling about Government taking away their healthcare) are mostly middle-aged, beer-bellied, depressed looking losers! I have looked closely, and notice only a few young people–mostly with older people, presumably parents!

I think the “tea-party” types are, in the main, a bunch of not-so-bright, easily manipulated folks who are in a snit about all of the terrible things happening in our country about which we are all in a snit! They just have a more obnoxious way of expressing it–and follow psychopathic “leaders” and corporate lobbyists who enable them! And, let’s face it, there is more than a little RACISM involved here!!!!

Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I think the Democrats will win big in the 2010 elections–and hopefully there will be more progressives among them! What I am worried about now, even more than the likelihood of a watered down healthcare bill, is the probablity that Obama will send many, many more troops to the wasteland of Afghanistan–and we will be pouring more money and lives down the BLACKHOLE OF WAR!!!! This scares and saddens me beyond belief!!!!!

Barack Hussein Obama, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm.

After all, if he can pontificate on the entire US economy, he can certainly figure out how to manage one little old newspaper which has a circulation less than Glenn Beck’s Christmas card list.

Or, maybe, just maybe, Paul Krugman is all hat and no horse.

We could reword his last paragraph to something more appropriate, “The point is that the takeover of the Democratic Party by the irrational left is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here – and it’s very bad for America”.

In September, 2003, Krugman published a collection of his columns under the title, The Great Unraveling. Taken as a whole, it was a scathing attack on the George W. Bush administration’s economic and foreign policies. His main argument was that the large deficits generated by the Bush administration — generated by decreasing taxes, increasing public spending, and fighting the Iraq war — were in the long run unsustainable, and would eventually generate a major economic crisis. The book was a best-seller.

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