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Trump Just Got Support From The Last Person You’d Expect–But It Could Hurt Him…
Donald Trump continues to find support all over the place, constantly surprising many watchers of politics. But one voice of support was just offered from someone who probably won’t help Trump even a little bit with the base.
In a move that is sure to cause raised eyebrows among conservatives, Trump just got the seal of approval from redistributionist “economist” Paul Krugman of The New York Times.
Despite the fact that Krugman has in the past blasted Trump as a “belligerent, loudmouth racist with not an ounce of compassion,” on Monday, the liberal economist nonetheless found that there were some things about Trump he was willing to endorse.
In his Monday op ed, Krugman found himself amazed that Trump was so willing to trounce on Republican orthodoxy when it comes to economic policy.
Krugman noted that other Republicans are gearing up to attack Trump for his “heresy for not accepting” the Republicans’ “failed orthodoxy” on economics because of Trump’s “willingness to raise taxes on the rich” and “his positive words about universal health care.”
Krugman didn’t go so far as to say Trump was a good candidate simply because of his economic views, though. In fact, Krugman went to pains to note that Trump is still “exactly the ignorant blowhard he seems to be.”
But in his op-ed, Krugman goes on to accuse Jeb Bush and conservatives looking to topple Trump from his growing lead in the polls of trying to undercut the real estate mogul on the very issues where Krugman thinks Trump is right.
“Mr. Bush has chosen to attack Mr. Trump as a false conservative, a proposition that is supposedly demonstrated by his deviations from current Republican economic orthodoxy: his willingness to raise taxes on the rich, his positive words about universal health care,” Krugman wrote on Monday. “For the issues the Bush campaign is using to attack its unexpected nemesis are precisely the issues on which Mr. Trump happens to be right, and the Republican establishment has been proved utterly wrong.”
Krugman also assumed that because so many Trump fans are seemingly not upset over Trump’s more liberal economic views, this has revealed some sort of rift in the party between the GOP elites and the base that is supportive of Trump.
With Trump’s ability to self-fund his campaign and his lack of a need to kowtow to the donor class, Krugman imagines that many Republican voters have turned away from the sort of supply-side economics that have fueled the right since Reagan.
Since Trump is self-funding, Krugman says, he “didn’t need to genuflect to the big money, and it turns out that the base doesn’t mind his heresies. This is a real revelation, which may have a lasting impact on our politics.”
But Krugman is likely overthinking the whole economics angle. He is correct that right now, the base isn’t churned up about Trump’s “heresies” from a more conservative economic perspective. But it is less likely that voters are figuring a concerted economic theory into their support for Trump and instead are simply so upset at the party elites that Trump’s complete “outsider” status is what they are responding to.
So, yes, voters are upset at the GOP establishment, but less over esoteric economic theory and more because the GOP establishment is viewed as a crashing failure on every level. And Trump, the most viable outsider, is whom they are rooting for–at least for now.
The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by WesternJournalism.com.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-just-got-support-from-the-last-person-youd-expect-but-it-could-hurt-him/
