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Paul Krugman's Deranged Call to Purge America of MAGA Is Scarier Than You Think
Hot Air ^ | 4 Jun, 2026 | David Strom

Posted on 06/04/2026 9:40:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It is now so common for leftists, indeed most Democrats, to call Trump supporters Nazis that it's easy to shrug and move on.

Unfortunately, as much as we would like to think it is a mere rhetorical flourish, it is not one at all. If you think that Democrats aren't serious when they propose what sound like insane measures, just remember what they did during COVID, what they are doing with alphabet ideology (literally sterilizing and mutilating kids and putting sex offenders into girls' locker rooms), and what they did to President Trump before his reelection.

They are quite serious about all the insane things they talk about, including Paul Krugman's call to "deMAGAfy" America, mirroring the measures taken after the Allies' victory in World War II.

We need to, obviously, we need to, um, defang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections. Uh, but beyond that, we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a, a deMAGAfication, and that is... You know, I'm not going over the top by using a word that's very similar to the denazification, uh, that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.

Krugman is not alone. Others have referred to Bush's "deBaathification" after the victory in the Iraq War.

If you don't know what that means exactly, let me tell you: outlawing political parties, rooting out supporters of the political cause you want to purge, removing academics, doctors, and other professionals associated with the movement, and banning them all from public life. It is Ursula von der Leyen's wet dream when it comes to AfD.

There were also, of course, trials and executions for the top-level malefactors. And Rudolf Hess served life in prison until his death in 1987, at the age of 93. I assume Trump would get either the execution or life in prison.

Americans have a hard time believing that their neighbors can really think like this, but the evidence is everywhere. In a 2022 poll, half of Democrats supported criminal penalties for questioning the effectiveness of vaccines. A substantial fraction wanted what amounted to COVID concentration camps and to take away children from parents who opposed forced vaccinations against COVID.

Biden was building an entire censorship regime, sent the FBI after social media posters who dissented from his policies, and suppressed news he didn't like. He sent his Deputy Attorney General to New York to become the primary prosecutor of Donald Trump in the bogus criminal case against him.

And that was before the communist wing of the party became ascendant.

Jonathan Turley has been ringing the alarm bells on the New Jacobins, who are bringing the spirit of the French Revolution to America, and reminds us that it was the same class of people who ushered in The Terror that is now leading the New Jacobins in the United States. It wasn't the working classes who led the revolt. It was the professional classes.

Newspapers like the New York Times regularly publish calls to trash the Constitution or curtail rights such as free speech. In one column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”

Another mocked “Constitution worship” and warned that “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us. A growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”

Republicans and law enforcement are now regularly called “Nazis” and “fascists” by Democratic leaders. Some are promising arrests from the President to individual police officers. Last week, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner promised to “hunt down” ICE officers like “Nazis.” Democratic strategist James Carville previously threatened that “collaborators” may be treated in the same way as they were after World War II.

Gov. Tim Walz, who has called ICE officers “Gestapo,” said that this may be our “Fort Sumter” moment, a triggering event for a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The dehumanization of political opponents gives people license for extreme or even violent responses. In cities like Minnesota, protesters carried signs reading “Kill Nazis” and we have seen assassination attempts on President Donald Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Many celebrated or rationalized the murder of Charlie Kirk. A quarter of Americans now believe political violence is justified.

Democrats are quite open about chucking the Constitution and seizing power. That may seem inconceivable, so many assume it is all rhetoric.

It is not. They really mean it. And their hope is a Democratic sweep this November and seizing the presidency in 2028. If they manage that, they will start their project to pack the Supreme Court, add new leftist states to lock in Senate dominance, and it's off to the races.

Think Walz or Spanberger on steroids. And perhaps even more, like "deMAGAfication."


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1 posted on 06/04/2026 9:40:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left became really bold under Biden. There is nothing I would put past them. They have already tried to execute President Trump several times. I think they will make another attempt on Trump’s life, unfortunately.


2 posted on 06/04/2026 9:41:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

As earlier, he needs a little J6 treatment.


3 posted on 06/04/2026 9:44:42 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

This ( defacto genocide) sounds like something people such as Bill Gates would throw a couple of million at, as seed money.


4 posted on 06/04/2026 9:47:12 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: MtnClimber

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5 posted on 06/04/2026 9:52:38 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > $300 to many insured vehicle owners 4 gas)
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To: MtnClimber
I assume Trump would get either the execution or life in prison.

Executing Trump would begin the commies biggest nightmare.

6 posted on 06/04/2026 9:53:43 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: rktman

Big time.


7 posted on 06/04/2026 9:54:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

Who are the Nazis again?


8 posted on 06/04/2026 9:58:35 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: MtnClimber

Gee, I’m not scared.

They know the outcome and they don’t want to experience it.


9 posted on 06/04/2026 10:00:01 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MtnClimber

The ‘rats are the “National Socialists”....


10 posted on 06/04/2026 10:01:44 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
What's his FR nick?

11 posted on 06/04/2026 10:02:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

“many assume it is all rhetoric”

Hitler was serious.


12 posted on 06/04/2026 10:02:38 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > $300 to many insured vehicle owners 4 gas)
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To: mikey_hates_everything
Executing Trump would begin the commies biggest nightmare.

Definitely some Congressional hearings, maybe some marches and peaceful protests, and then crickets. Afraid it is going to take much more to wake up the populace.

13 posted on 06/04/2026 10:04:19 AM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: MtnClimber
The Left in America has fallen into what Mattias Desmet calls a mass formation/mass hypnosis ("singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink" - see "The Psychology of Totalitarianism").
14 posted on 06/04/2026 10:08:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats never seem to consider the real consequences of their words, and the fact that two can play at that game

Maybe America needs to be “De-krugmanized”

And there’s a lot of people who would be willing to do it if the Left ever goes truly insane.


15 posted on 06/04/2026 10:19:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bray

Uh, maga? 🤔😂👍


16 posted on 06/04/2026 10:25:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

The democrats and their Love of Genocide


17 posted on 06/04/2026 10:27:14 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re calling us Nazis so they can feel good about killing us.

See my tagline and plan accordingly.

L


18 posted on 06/04/2026 10:32:35 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: voicereason

If they went as far as publicly executing him and televising it, that should be enough to begin a guerrilla war.


19 posted on 06/04/2026 10:36:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MtnClimber

The ignorant, communist, left wing is too stupid to understand that they are the first one the alligator will eat!!!


20 posted on 06/04/2026 10:37:10 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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