[Sir Napsalot]

Some blind nuggets from the bug-eyed Nobel laureate.

Contrast that to the hit piece from WaPo. Donald Trump’s surge is all about less-educated Americans

[Sir Napsalot]

We are still ‘affluent white racists’, have no fear.

[SmokingJoe]

Has Paul Krugman actually ever gotten anything right?

[Don Corleone]

What characteristics predispose someone to like this guy, as opposed to accepting the establishment candidates?

True AMERICANS fed up with the Uniparty government we have been subjected to that is taking the USA towards a one world Agenda 21 government of masters and slaves.

[nickcarraway]

Now Trumpbots support Krugman. Wake me when they get to Chomsky.

[sauropod]

The reason I’d like to see such a poll is that I suspect that both conservative and liberal pundits are still getting the Trump phenomenon wrong. And yes, that’s the kind of statement — hey, left and right both wrong! — that I usually hate when other pundits do it. But in my case it’s not knee-jerk centrism, it’s an informed guess based on some related evidence.

That's a knee-slapper right there, Paul.

[kingu]

Projection wishing as normal. The polls are right there for anyone to read, which is specifically why the author tossed up wishcasting - actually referencing the existing polls would disprove their point.

[DannyTN]

So far we’ve been profiled as crazies”,”angry”,”hoodwinked” and “star-struck”. They think we made our decision to support Trump lightly and that we are fickle enough to abandon him on the slightest criticism.

Yet we are not any of the above.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I can’t stand that POS.

[miss marmelstein]

Yip! We’ze all tobaccy-chewin’ white men a-living in the hollers of Wes’ Virginny and hopin’ the Yankees don’ win this here war and somebody he’ps us with the cotton crop this year. Gotta go now, Marsh Krugman, mah wife jus’ give birth to our second two-headed young’un in the Lower 40. Here’s hopin’ The Donald’ll be the next prizedent and help share’n his corn seed with us’n. Bless yer heart!

[butterdezillion]

Right. We must be racist.

These people are as predictable, boring, and wrong as can be. They just never get it, and they can’t understand why some of us like it when a candidate freely shows that he “gets” what is important to us peons.

[1-Eagle]

Notice how the constant narrative of Trump supporters (and Tea Party) being "angry people dissatisfied with government" continues to get hammered in our brains daily. The objective is to define both groups as angry, ie: not rational.

The other narrative definition is: "immigrants" and "undocumented immigrants" as opposed to "trespassing foreign nationals". Certain CNN "experts" will use alternately "immigrants" and "undocumented immigrants" as much as 20 times per minute. The objective here is to confer legitimate status on fugitives from the law. Why, they aren't fugitives! They are "undocumented immigrants"!

Brainwashing us.

[familyop]

"What characteristics predispose someone to like this guy, as opposed to accepting the establishment candidates?"

Income from government and tendencies toward fascism.

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

[spintreebob]

Krugman juxtaposes conservative and liberal. That really misses reality.

Most of FR, Occupy-Wall Street, Sanders, Trump, Cruz, Carson, Paul and Tea Party (and others) is anti-establishment and anti-oligarch.

Conservative:liberal paradigm ignores the reality that there are three economic approaches in modern society. Krugman (who pretends to know about economics) ignores that CORPORATISM aka Mercantilism is the ideology of both Bush and Clinton and most of the media.

Socialists think Corporatists are capitalists. Capitalists think Corporatists are socialists. They are both wrong.