Krugman writes: "I'm ending this year with a feeling of hope, because tens of millions of Americans have risen to the occasion."
Economist Paul Krugman. (photo: Getty Images)
27 December 17
any of us came into 2017 expecting the worst. And in many ways, the worst is what we got.
Donald Trump has been every bit as horrible as one might have expected; he continues, day after day, to prove himself utterly unfit for office, morally and intellectually. And the Republican Party including so-called moderates turns out, if anything, to be even worse than one might have expected. At this point its evidently composed entirely of cynical apparatchiks, willing to sell out every principle and every shred of their own dignity as long as their donors get big tax cuts.
Meanwhile, conservative media have given up even the pretense of doing real reporting, and become blatant organs of ruling-party propaganda.
