provocative Donway at his best: "Krugman is the white knight, the idealized champion, moving America as rapidly as possible toward socialism. A Nobel laureate in economics, Ivy League professor, and columnist for the New York Times, Krugman proclaimed his socialism in his book, Conscience of A Liberal, a deliberate parallel with Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater. Krugman explains that “liberal” in America equates with “social democrat” in Europe. I will argue that the more precise term is “fascist democrat”—one who aspires to elect a government that is the fascist variant of socialism.

If Krugman puts white nationalism first among motives for supporting Trump, he accuses what is called the “American heartland” of bigotry. Much of the South, Midwest, Northwest, parts of New England, and some Mid-Atlantic states now are for Trump. Almost half of America, on Krugman’s map, is heavily white nationalist, yearning for a racially pure United States that, in fact, never existed, that they never experienced, but that Paul Krugman divines in their hearts."

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