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Krugman writes: "I'm on a number of right-wing mailing lists, and I try to at least skim what they're going on about in any given week; this often gives me advance warning about the next wave of manufactured outrage. Lately I've been seeing dire warnings that if Democrats win next year they'll try to turn America into California, which the writers portray as a socialist hellhole."

A protest along President Trump's motorcade route on Tuesday. (photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
A protest along President Trump's motorcade route on Tuesday. (photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)


Trump Declares War on California

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times

20 September 19


It’s a liberal state, so it must be punished.

’m on a number of right-wing mailing lists, and I try to at least skim what they’re going on about in any given week; this often gives me advance warning about the next wave of manufactured outrage. Lately I’ve been seeing dire warnings that if Democrats win next year they’ll try to turn America into (cue scary background music) California, which the writers portray as a socialist hellhole.

Sure enough, this week Donald Trump effectively declared war on California on two fronts. He’s trying to take away the Golden State’s ability to regulate pollution generated by its 15 million cars, and, more bizarrely, he’s seeking to have the Environmental Protection Agency declare that California’s homeless population constitutes an environmental threat.

More about these policy moves in a moment. First, let’s talk about two Californias: the real state on America’s left coast, and the fantasy state of the right’s imagination.

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