Krugman: Making Ignorance Great Again

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/opinion/trump-gop-paris-climate-accord.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0


Making Ignorance Great Again
Paul Krugman JUNE 5, 2017


Donald Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision. Oh, he threw around a few numbers about supposed job losses, but nobody believes that he knows or cares where those numbers came from. It was just what he felt like doing.

And here’s the thing: What just happened on climate isn’t an unusual case — and Trump isn’t especially unusual for a modern Republican. For today’s G.O.P. doesn’t do substance; it doesn’t assemble evidence, or do analysis to formulate or even to justify its policy positions. Facts and hard thinking aren’t wanted, and anyone who tries to bring such things into the discussion is the enemy.

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And as health care and climate go, so goes everything else. Can you think of any major policy area where the G.O.P. hasn’t gone post-truth? Take budgeting, where leaders like Paul Ryan have always justified tax cuts for the rich by claiming the ability to conjure up trillions in extra revenue and savings in some unspecified way. The Trump-Mulvaney budget, which not only pulls $2 trillion out of thin air but counts it twice, takes the game to a new level, but it’s not that much of a departure.

But does any of it matter? The president, backed by his party, is talking nonsense, destroying American credibility day by day. But hey, stocks are up, so what’s the problem?

Well, bear in mind that so far Trump hasn’t faced a single crisis not of his own making. As George Orwell noted many years ago in his essay “In Front of Your Nose,” people can indeed talk nonsense for a very long time, without paying an obvious price. But “sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” Now there’s a happy thought.

[Stuart G]

1. Perhaps...just perhaps....it can be arranged by the Aliens from other worlds....who are

watching this insanity of the republicans...that the pukes can breath the dirty air.................along with Drumpf.....................
..............................and those in favor of the Paris climate accord...can breath clean air..............................

These beings from other worlds watching us...know...........how stupid Drumpf and the republicans are...........

......................................not just stupid................but........................extremely stupid................