Krugman on Center for American Progress smears by one Dem Primary campaign

[ehrnst]

Link to tweet

The smearing of CAP and @neeratanden is really something to behold, because it suggests that some people in both the media and political life have learned nothing. For the first time in a couple of years I'm starting to feel that Trump might get reelected.

[Cha]

1. Paul Krugman and Josh Marshall know

what's going on.

Link to tweet

Thank you, ehrnst.

[oasis]

2. Neera Tanden would easily make my top 5 if she were to enter the race.

[Blue_true]

21. I like her style. She always defends democratic principles and she does not back down. nt

[lapucelle]

3. Krugman gave a similar warning in September 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/hillary-clinton-gets-gored.html

[dalton99a]

4. Worth repeating

And right now I and many others have the sick, sinking feeling that it’s happening again.

True, there aren’t many efforts to pretend that Donald Trump is a paragon of honesty. But it’s hard to escape the impression that he’s being graded on a curve. If he manages to read from a TelePrompter without going off script, he’s being presidential. If he seems to suggest that he wouldn’t round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants right away, he’s moving into the mainstream. And many of his multiple scandals, like what appear to be clear payoffs to state attorneys general to back off investigating Trump University, get remarkably little attention.

Meanwhile, we have the presumption that anything Hillary Clinton does must be corrupt, most spectacularly illustrated by the increasingly bizarre coverage of the Clinton Foundation. ...

So I would urge journalists to ask whether they are reporting facts or simply engaging in innuendo, and urge the public to read with a critical eye. If reports about a candidate talk about how something “raises questions,” creates “shadows,” or anything similar, be aware that these are all too often weasel words used to create the impression of wrongdoing out of thin air.

[ehrnst]

9. Yep. (nt)

[McKim]

5. Do Not Repeat and Echo Democratic Party Candidates

Do not echo put downs of Democratic Party candidates. Do not take the bait that the bots are offering. Talk about your candidate’s platforms and good points and call out those who bash. Stay classy!

[lapucelle]

7. Paul Krugman is a bot? N/T

[ehrnst]

8. Are you saying Paul Krugman is a bot? And are you saying that CAP was not

bashed by the Sanders both in a public letter and for fundraising purposes?

Or is that your idea of praise?

[Cha]

11. NEWSFLASH! Paul Krugman is NOT

one of your bots!

[ehrnst]

18. No response?

Not surprised. You don't have the nerve to defend that smear, so you go silent when called out.

[Blue_true]

22. Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner and devout progressive.

He is not remotely a Bot.

[Blue_Tires]

6. I've been trying to say the same thing, but I always get alerted on

Maybe folks will listen to Krugman instead...

[Skidmore]

10. k&r nt

[Hortensis]

12. One look at what CAP does should make those who support

attacks on it mindlessly because they support him ashamed. It's like stomping on their own claimed principles. Just a few grabbed from dozens ALL on the right side of morality, liberalism and progressivism:

Conservatives Are Using the Courts to Attack Health Care for All Americans

Introducing Clean Slate: The Center for American Progress and partners gathered to discuss bipartisan clean slate legislation—policies to automatically clear certain criminal records and give people relief from discrimination.

Bold Democracy Reforms That Build on H.R. 1: Americans are expecting far-reaching solutions to return power to the people—and federal lawmakers are beginning to act to do so.

The Apprenticeship Wage and Participation Gap

How the Trump Administration Is Undoing College Accreditation

Not Enough Cops on the Beat: IRS Cuts Have Benefited Wealthy Tax Cheats

Advancing #MeToo in a Post-Kavanaugh Confirmation World

CAP Analysis Reveals Oil and Gas Leases That Threaten Wildlife Corridors

Race Has Everything to Do with Trump’s Budget. Here’s Why.

Phoenix Home to 31,000 Dreamers and TPS/DED Holders Eligible for the Dream and Promise Act
Chicago Home to 37,000 Dreamers and TPS/DED Holders Eligible for the Dream and Promise Act

Tax Day 2019: How To Unrig the Tax Code

https://www.americanprogress.org/

[ehrnst]

13. But saying that they were "out to get him and all progressives" certainly makes a more

compelling fundraising ask, doesn't it?

[Hortensis]

14. Reminds me of when Sanders attacked Planned Parenthood,

angry because they could only endorse one candidate and chose the woman who's devoted her professional life to improving the wellbeing of women and children.

Of course, in retrospect he must have been trying to turn that to advantage by appealing to the conservatives he was trying to draw. But then I assumed he was just, as usual, viewing all who weren't in his train as problems to stomp.

[ehrnst]

15. Yes. I WISH that we lived in a reality where Planned Parenthood is "an establishment group"

But I guess if one believes that they are the measure of all that is "progressive" whosoever does not fall in behind is "corrupt" or to use the perjorative unironically used by a 30 years on Capitol Hill career politician, "establishment."

[Hortensis]

17. :) We did for a while. Before much of the nation pivoted hard right.

Btw, attacking Planned Parenthood backfired badly on him. He's since repaired his official position, if not his history.

[ehrnst]

19. True. But there are people who will never forget that he went after

a group that actually GOT affordable health care to women, with no judgement.

[BlueFlorida]

16. Authoritative and astute opinion from a Nobel laureate

K&R

[Cha]

20. Kick