If PBS wants to combat accusations that the tax-funded news network is a haven for smug elitist politics (PBS, where even the conservatives are liberal!), Thursday night’s segment featuring former New York Times columnist and (once) respected economist Paul Krugman wasn’t the way to go about it.
Krugman really leaned into his natural unlikability in the remote interview with PBS’s resident economics reporter Paul Solman, who drew Krugman out on the stupidity of his now-former newspaper and low-income Trump voters
Reminder: Here are just a couple of past Krugman lowlights (besides his ongoing insistence in the face of evidence that Joe Biden had a good economic record):
— Krugman lied about Florida’s successful Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis record on COVID, and resenting DeSantis’s ability to balance freedom and health
— Krugman has been on a…
