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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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To: PGR88

Or maybe the marxist/communists here need to be held accountable for their past genocides and the stated desire to do it again.


21 posted on 06/04/2026 10:37:13 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

The masks are coming off.


22 posted on 06/04/2026 10:38:40 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

The political left should be designated as a terrorist organization.


23 posted on 06/04/2026 10:41:01 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

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24 posted on 06/04/2026 10:41:19 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: Lurker

Nazis were German. Here we call them Yankees.


25 posted on 06/04/2026 10:42:07 AM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: MtnClimber

Its obvious that Krugman has again gone off his medication.


26 posted on 06/04/2026 10:43:56 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats finally admit that Nazis are not so bad after all.


27 posted on 06/04/2026 10:46:28 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Beowulf9
Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl [FBI], who had infiltrated and joined the Weather Underground, described their post-revolution governing plans for the United States in this video taken from the 1982 documentary "No Place to Hide." The Weather Underground openly discussed exterminating 25 million Americans who refused to be "re-educated" into communism.

Here's a transcript of his interview:

I bought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. We, we become responsible, then, for administrating, you know, 250 million people.

And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics; how are you going to clothe and feed these people.

The only thing that I could get, was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the southwest, where we would take all the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them... how things were going to be.

I asked, well, what's going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate; that are die-hard capitalists. And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious."

-- Larry Grathwohl, former member of the Weather Underground [As a FBI undercover Agent]

28 posted on 06/04/2026 10:53:15 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: rktman

🔝🔝🔝

Paul Krugman is a 5’7” Leftist Moron

Typical Unhinged Democrat Terrorist and Insurrectionist


29 posted on 06/04/2026 10:53:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Bill Ayers, 0bama friend and political mentor.


30 posted on 06/04/2026 10:54:25 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: SaveFerris

What’s scary is that millions of Americans are just as stupid and might go along.


31 posted on 06/04/2026 11:02:14 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: MtnClimber; lightman; Navy Patriot

......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.”......

If these birds succeed in trashing the Constitution, various States will succeed from the Union, not as a bloc (like the Confederacy), but one by one, in utter chaos!

Law professors from Harvard and Yale should be ashamed of themselves for opposing the Constitution! Both law schools have a noble history of defending and strengthening it!!


32 posted on 06/04/2026 11:06:53 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MtnClimber

Let ‘em threaten. I want the Democrap Party eradicated.


33 posted on 06/04/2026 11:10:43 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude
Let ‘em threaten. I want the Democrap Party eradicated.

The last civil war did not work out so well for them.

34 posted on 06/04/2026 11:15:13 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: Brian Griffin

If only.


35 posted on 06/04/2026 11:17:01 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal (1<i>)
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To: Beowulf9

But enough about Coup-19.


36 posted on 06/04/2026 11:20:27 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: MtnClimber

“There were also, of course, trials and executions for the top-level malefactors.”

AND massive numbers of lower level SS Death Camp Guards and SS Death Squads were summarily executed on the spot right before and after VE day, long before Neurenburg ...


37 posted on 06/04/2026 11:36:08 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: MtnClimber
In cities like Minnesota

Somebody needs a geography lesson. Minnesota is a state, not a city.

38 posted on 06/04/2026 11:55:48 AM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: MtnClimber

So much for “our democracy,” eh Paul?


39 posted on 06/04/2026 12:00:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: MtnClimber

Scarier for liberals, certainly, if the legal restraints are off us.

I wonder if they realize how many of us would jump at a free pass to go hunting them. Pent up rage at their crap.

The years of Øbowel and Bidet* promoting the insulting and demeaning of us needs a serious correction.


40 posted on 06/04/2026 12:23:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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