Paul Krugman on Arguing with Republican Zombies
The NYT columnist and Nobel Prize winner discusses how Republicans operate in bad faith on issues like climate, tax cuts, deficits, income and wealth inequality, and now, the pandemic.
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There has been no coherent national strategy for dealing with this crisis. Normally that would come from a coherent president. Once the coronavirus left China, there was nothing we could have done as a nation to prevent a pandemic. Tragically, because of Donald Trump we have an out-of-control pandemic.
This crisis has shed light on a number of our country’s serious problems.
This week on The Al Franken Podcast: NYT columnist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman discusses how Republicans operate in bad faith on issues like climate, tax cuts, deficits, income and wealth inequality, and now, the pandemic.
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