Krugman's conumdrum (Clinton, economy, election, elect)

[Roadking2003]

What do you say when somebody you really hate does what you agree with?

Krugman is an avowed Big Government advocate and supports increasing government spending.
Krugman is also a very public Trump Hater.

Krugman is now torn between being a Trump Hater and a Big Government spending proponent. So what will he do? Keep hating Trump and ignore Trump's big government spending proposal or support Trump's big government spending proposal and put his Trump hate on the back burner?
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Paul Krugman Should Love President Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

America’s most famous Keynesian, economist Paul Krugman, predictably used his New York Times column to excoriate President Trump’s State of the Union infrastructure proposal. Yet ironically, Krugman’s own positions on the economy and climate change should lead him to applaud Trump’s ideas. This is just another episode where Krugman displays his partisanship, rather than fidelity to his ostensible goals for the public.

Right off the bat, Krugman is in an awkward position, because back when he thought Hillary Clinton was going to be the next president, Krugman stressed the need for more infrastructure spending. For example, in a column from August 2016 titled, “Time to Borrow” (!), Krugman wrote:

The campaign still has three ugly months to go, but the odds — 83 percent odds, according to the New York Times’s model — are that it will end with the election of a sane, sensible president. So what should she do to boost America’s economy, which is doing better than most of the world but is still falling far short of where it should be?

There are, of course, many ways our economic policy could be improved. But the most important thing we need is sharply increased public investment in everything from energy to transportation to wastewater treatment.

https://mises.org/wire/paul-krugman-...structure-plan

[uggabugga]

the poor kruggster must be experiencing some serious cognitive dissonance.