Liberal blogger Paul Krugman brags that he doesn’t read conservatives, which makes it totally unsurprising when he displays a total lack of understanding of conservative politics and arguments (here I cite three examples of his cluelessness).
Today in a typical Krugman piece (the argument is basically that academics are all Democrats because smart people are too smart to be Republicans) Krugman misapplies data to try and argue — in effect — that his sort of close-mindedness is totally justified. One of his errors is interesting, though, because it may be fairly typical amongst media folk who aren’t paying close attention: Krugman, a Nobel laureate in economics, posits that Donald Trump’s success in the polls represents “a sharp rightward … move by Republicans …”
