You don’t address the points I made. Krugman is right there tends to be a lazy anti-intellectualism on the Right.
Again, as long as the land is federal, Bundy has two choices: he can pay his fees or he can move out. What he does not have the right to do is to treat land that doesn’t belong to him as his own private property.
And I don’t consider someone who isn’t a dutiful tenant a hero. I am sure no one on here would say someone who lives in an apartment should be a moocher at the landlord’s expense. The exact same principle is operative in Nevada; only the identity of the landlord happens to be BLM who acts on behalf of all of us in management of the federal lands - the American people.
I believe Bundy owns his own ranch, but had a deal, for many years, to allow his cows to graze on public lands. He was happy to pay the grazing fees, to the State of Nevada, because he had expected the BLM to actually MANAGE the land, not just own it and charge ranchers for the use of it, without any stewardship at all.