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BUFFOONERY: Paul Krugman Claims Far Left ‘Has No Significant Influence on the Democratic Party’
NewsBusters ^ | 10/18/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 10/18/2023 1:30:05 PM PDT by JV3MRC

One of the most ardent leftist economic writers in American media actually claimed that the far left “has no significant influence on the Democratic Party.” And no, he wasn’t being facetious.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went after his typical target — Republicans — in an Oct. 16 screed whining that GOPers were blaming President Joe Biden for the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel. “Like much of what the American right says these days, these smears were both vile and infantile.” The same “infantile” Krugman once called the GOP “economic terrorists,” but who’s keeping score? Krugman’s oblivious take then descended into pure comedy: “More generally, it’s striking how both the far left, which has no significant influence on the Democratic Party, and the far right, which largely runs the G.O.P., are American solipsists.” Uh, what?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
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1 posted on 10/18/2023 1:30:05 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Well, given his jokes of a performance on things economic, we already know that he struggles to perform simple arithmetic tasks.


2 posted on 10/18/2023 1:31:20 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: JV3MRC

Krugman went Full Retard a long time ago.


3 posted on 10/18/2023 1:31:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Palestanians are not "refugeez". They are muslim terrorists. Remember 9/11/2001.)
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To: JV3MRC

Paul Krugman is nothing but a useful idiot for the commies.


4 posted on 10/18/2023 1:31:59 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: JV3MRC

The dims are the far left. There is no separation.


5 posted on 10/18/2023 1:34:24 PM PDT by xp38
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To: JV3MRC

“In reality these demonstrations contributed to $2 billion in damages from looting, arson and vandalism. “

This is fake news that has now become a fact.

Axios wrote up to $2billion in insured losses in the Minneapolis/St. Pete area in June/July-

that insanely has now been stretched to incl all insured + uninsured damages nationwide.


6 posted on 10/18/2023 1:39:15 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: JV3MRC

This guy is 100% wrong ALL the time. Quite a feat.


7 posted on 10/18/2023 1:45:46 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: beethovenfan
This guy is 100% wrong ALL the time. Quite a feat.

Apparently not for this 'nobel laureate.' In Krugman's case 'noble laureate' must be synomomous with 'idiot savant.'

8 posted on 10/18/2023 1:55:08 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: JV3MRC

huh??

LMAO

how they define the far left and we define it are two different things!

ilhan omar is the only one this guy might in some cases say is left wing, but Nancy Pelosi and crew are mainstream!

LMAO


9 posted on 10/18/2023 2:00:42 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: JV3MRC
Just remember, he didn't win the Nobel Prize in Economics for the sh*t he writes for The New York Times.

Truly a whore.

10 posted on 10/18/2023 2:03:06 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: JV3MRC

Democratic Party = Maoism

They don’t require any extra help


11 posted on 10/18/2023 2:09:07 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: JV3MRC

What an idiotic statement from Krugman, the Democrats are the far Left. Half of the Republican Party are Leftists too as we can see in their refusal to vote for Jim Jordan.


12 posted on 10/18/2023 2:29:42 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: JV3MRC

“Just when I think ya can’t say anything dumber ya just keep on talkin’ ‘’.- Hank Hill, “King Of The Hill.’’


13 posted on 10/18/2023 2:53:39 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: JV3MRC

...claimed that the far left “has no significant influence on the Democratic Party.”

That’s because the Democrat Party is influencing the “far left”, having won the race to the bottom.


14 posted on 10/18/2023 3:04:12 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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...but...the far left IS the Democrat Party...


15 posted on 10/18/2023 3:20:59 PM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: JV3MRC

Considering he is part of the extreme left, I’m sure he doesn’t see it.


16 posted on 10/18/2023 4:25:04 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: JV3MRC

I needed a laugh tonight...


17 posted on 10/18/2023 7:02:56 PM PDT by Chicory
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To: JV3MRC

He can’t see the influence of the left on the democrat party for the same reason a fish doesn’t know it is wet.


18 posted on 10/19/2023 4:01:24 AM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (End of quote. Repeat the line. )
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