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babylonsister

(172,620 posts)
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 07:45 AM 7 hrs ago

Paul Krugman: They're Monsters

https://politicalwire.com/2026/01/25/monsters/


They’re Monsters
January 25, 2026 at 7:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Paul Krugman: “It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.”

“At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.”

“I wish I could believe that the last few weeks will be the last straw, but I don’t. To be honest, I wish I believed in Hell, because if it did exist, the enablers would be going there along with the monsters.”

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Paul Krugman: They're Monsters (Original Post) babylonsister 7 hrs ago OP
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