Paul Krugman on how GOP leaders—Romney and GWB among them—paved the way to MAGA world.
“Advocates of right-wing economic policies, which redistributed income from workers to the wealthy, sought to sell their agenda by exploiting social intolerance and animosity. They had considerable success with this strategy. But eventually the extremists they thought they were using ended up ruling the party.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/economic-conservatives-extremism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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