I fear that 2016 has been pretty hard on some people.
Then I read stuff like this, and I don’t feel very sorry for them.
Note what Paul Krugman is saying here: When he says “interesting incentives,” he is insinuating in advance that President-elect Trump might allow or even create a terrorist attack in order to dispel doubts about his legitimacy.
Thought: There was (rightly) a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush, dispelled (wrongly) by 9/11. Creates some interesting incentives for Trump
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
Let me be the first to point out that, despite Trump’s voluminous unhinged tweeting, he has never gone further than Krugman just did right there.
