HOW IT STARTED: Paul Krugman’s totalitarian temptation.
Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood libel of blame for the Tucson murders squarely on the shoulders of “the crowds at the McCain-Palin rallies” and “right-wing extremism.” It’s the Republicans’ fault because “the purveyors of hate have been treated with respect, even deference, by the GOP establishment.” Krugman’s solution is for “decent people” to “shun” those he holds accountable. But the logic of his argument leads straight to calling for official restrictions on political speech after shunning inevitably fails to do the job. The totalitarian temptation is an ever-present possibility with people like Krugman.
—The Washington Examiner, January 10th, 2011.
How It’s Going:
Just ever so casually talking about purging a large swath of people.
No restraint.
Feminine voice.
Feminine gestures.
Feminine features.
Toxic genocidal vitriol. As easy as breathing.
This new kind of “man” in the west is an estrogen infused civilization killer. https://t.co/vjUaOxXeOs
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) June 2, 2026
To be fair, acknowledging that the economic “miracle of the 1940s” had a rather massive downside might actually be progress of a sort for Krugman in his dotage.