The obvious reason behind Trump’s undying
political strength is somehow still dumbfounding
ignorant Big Media elites

Soooo the public no longer trust newspapers, magazines & abccbsnbccnnmsnbc!!!!!

Rural white rage?! Are you kidding me? Has Krugman ever been to any rural area in this country? We are not rage filled hillbillies. In fact, you couldn’t pay me to live in a big city. That is where rage exists and seems to multiply. Out here in flyover country, it is for the most part very peaceful and if we didn’t have this insane government breathing down our necks and wasting money like water through a sieve, and leftist ideology being foisted upon us, I would say it was ideal. All these leftist authors who write about rural life know nothing about it. They are clueless and defaming us and our way of life is a knee jerk reaction. I wouldn’t give up my way of life for the so called cosmopolitan lifestyle that the leftists believe is so superior. It is rural and suburban Americans who make this country work. You want to live the American dream? You will not find it in the big cities. It is alive in flyover country and we do not intend to let the democrats destroy our heritage. Our kids and grandkids deserve to live in the America I grew up in. This is what the election this year is all about. MAGA!

If an idiot babbles long enough, eventually something reasonable will spill out. The Commiecrats, while pretending to serve the US, have turned our largest cities into festering termite hills of anger, hate, depravity and crime. And they want that for rural areas too, but can't seem to figure out how to visit that upon them.

"an arrogant refusal to accept truths that don’t fit neatly into a blinkered worldview" Such a person is fundamentally stupid (intellectually limited) because they are unable to incorporate reality that they disagree with. They are emotionally locked out of truth. Further, since they are committed emotionally to their beliefs, they experience personal insult, anger, and FEAR when confronted with alternate truths. "Don't bother trying to talk with a liberal" is a mostly true declaration. They cannot be persuaded by even the most obvious logic or reality. Their beliefs ARE them. A challenge to their beliefs is considered a personal attack. You will be swamped with their anger for "attacking" them. Since you have no hope of persuading them, engaging them only opens you to a retaliatory assault. It is pointless. (Apologies to some liberals that are not quite so emotionally entrenched.) For the media, it is fear of the loss of their power. If the past, media was most concerned with their reputation for reporting the news factually and thoroughly. That has long been replaced by corporate and person vanity and worship of the power their position affords them. Trump laughs at them and ridicules them and it is painfully obvious that he is right. Media have been made into fools and as they have become more desperate they have become more foolish. They are circling the bowl and they can't stop because they are emotionally locked into their behavior. Trump is exposing liberal insanity and was wildly successful in acting in opposition to their thinking. That success, followed by Biden's liberal failures, is about to steal liberal identity and power, not only for this election but perhaps through shifts in group perceptions of liberals vs. Conservatives. Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, and others are opening their thinking and realizing that modern liberalism is NOT good and that real Conservatism is far better than they have thought. The schadenfreude with liberal confusion and angst is just a delightful bonus. Unfortunately, there will be a price to pay. Liberal emotions, and their heads, will explode. The results will be social chaos. How that will play out is uncertain.

I've read him consistently for years. With nearly unfailing accuracy is Krugman says something the opposite is true. He's an excellent anti-predictor of the future and reality in general. Very few have been so wrong so publicly for such a long period of their life.

How truly ironic that the paper publishing this excellent column spews Trump hatred every day. The paper simultaneously roasts Biden for family corruption, the invasion at the border, Wokeism, our disastrous economy, crime, etc. It makes no sense.

In Krugman we see the result of a (not very well) educated idiot who is given media space for unknown reasons. The man has been wrong on every position he has taken since the day he began writing. At least he admits that he doesn't get it.

Krugman’s musings would be funny if not for the fact that most Democrats hold the same cockeyed beliefs

Go ahead, Paul. Try that in a small town.

Twelve years ago, this Friday when I joined this site it linked to me a post about Paul Krugman on Townhall.com. It was about the economy and how great it was under Obummer. Back then Krugman was an incorrect elitist, leftist jerk and nothing has changed. It does make me laugh when big city elitist jerks like him and others poke fun at us "rage filled rubes" in flyover country. I'm Black Conservative who lives on the rural NC coast. Krugman and his ilk cannot understand folks like me let alone White people who live in middle rural America. I personally don't give a rip what he and his ilk do or don't understand. All Paul and company need to know is that he will get a clue to help him understand this November. MAGA2024!

I should have been collecting the articles that come out every now and then where a devout dazzling leftist urbanite writes about his or her daring expedition behind the flannel and denim curtain, and like Captain Spaulding, who once shot an elephant in his pajamas, lives to tell about it. They speak of their expectations, a noose dangling from every tree, ruts worn in dirt roads by the dragging of knuckles, blood dripping from the only tooth or two left in town where the Whittakers are admired for their superior intellect and Deliverance is considered to be a documentary. Invariably they’re stunned to be welcomed by warm friendly people who treat them with kindness and speak in full sentences and have cogent thoughts. The elites don’t have a clue that we little people are feeling the effects of the abandonment of our constitutional republic which has taken place for a century. The American dream survived because advancements which should have led to a bigger dream were squandered by bloating government. The bloating has outpaced the growth in our ability to produce, and we feel it. People know something is wrong, people know their government is off the rails, and they have been betrayed. Unfortunately, many still attribute that to one major party and think we are supporting the country by voting for the other party. Some of us see Trump as the only genuine outside threat to the swamp creature that has shredded our constitution and clamped down on our throats.

Simple. When Nixon won, a N.Y. City woman said, "I can't believe it. All my friends voted against Nixon."

To paraphrase Krugman, "I don't get how anyone with the least bit of sense cannot understand PDT's appeal." I'm glad I live in 'flyover' country. I love my ICE automobile and our great South Louisiana cuisine. I appreciate that everyone, white, black and brown, smile when we meet, wish each other a good day when we part, ask each other how we are, and sincerely mean it. I like church socials, school ball games and family gatherings. I like raising my own beef and vegetables, and sharing the abundance with friends. I love having a safe full of guns, for hunting and self protection and being able to hunt. Even though I'm only an hours ride from New Orleans, I no longer have any desire to visit that liberal run hell-hole. Anything I need, or desire, is avaliable out here in the 'boonies' or on the internet. I really do understand folks moving to the rural areas, and as a result, we're starting to get some liberal 'karens', but in time, most come around. At 81 years young, I hope to enjoy my few remaining years peacefully, if the liberal swamp will let me.

Current events are constantly roiling; administrations come and go. But one constant---for which I am always grateful---is the thoughts and commentary from our Lucianne community. For their personal connections, I cite especially 10 and 13 as prime examples of why I often learn more, and derive more pleasure, from reading the comments than the article. Well done posters!

Krugman....such a total fool, and so thoroughly and completely disconnected from the real world in his Manhattan lair. Krugman, in raw defiance of the facts, claims "include that New York is a “relatively safe” city compared to the “hellscapes” of rural America." Give us any example, mister economist, of your "hellscape" theory. How is it that this man can be so totally certain of, as the lawyers say, "facts not in evidence". Except that what Krugman sees as "facts" are total fictions. The "hellscape" of rural America? Well, it depends on your definitions. But as to safety...you are physically much safer in most of rural America than in any large Dem city in this country. Perhaps an idiot like Krugman would find that being too far from a Starbucks or unable to get lunch from some favored NYC deli would constitute a "hellscape" to his dim witted Manhattanite brain. But he says it in the context of "safety", and there his views are exactly opposite of the truth. The murder rate in NYC is much lower than in Chicago, true. But does Kruger put Chicago into the giant geographic bin of "rural America" because it is off of his island of residence and therefore "out there"? Of course, having even two or three murders in a year in a city of 50,000 people can drive up statistics....but I'll take my chances at 2 am in Salina or Great Bend, Kansas over 2 am in in Manhattan any time. And I'll bet you that if you are bothered in either of these small Kansas cities, it will not be by an American, but will be by an Mexican or El Salvadoran or Venezuelan who is here illegally. Lots of cities in Kansas have beef packing operations, and they hire mostly illegals and the local authorities turn a blind eye to all sorts of zoning and housing violations by these illegals. Perhaps Joe's illegal problem is something that small cities in Kansas and NYC have in common.