What Paul Krugman thinks about democracy
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Paul Krugman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsFirst, Trump and his inner circle don’t just love autocrats. They hate democracy and rule of law — which means that they hate America and American values.
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Their wordsMega-billionaires are more dangerous to democracy than the merely rich
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