Paul Krugman Issues Dire Warning On How ‘A Lot’ Of Trump Voters Will Be ‘Brutally Scammed’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-krugman-donald-trump-voters_n_678789f0e4b009ff2590c7b3

39 comments

  1. Just a snippet:

    >The returning president “appears to have an extremely regressive economic program in mind, one that really will effectively redistribute income away from working-class voters to the top” and there appears to be a lack of Wall Street “heavyweights” who could “steer him away” from his most destructive instills, Krugman said.

  3. It will all be “the Democrats fault” in the end, I’m sure.

  6. They’re so deep in the disinformation hole it’ll be a miracle if they ever learn the truth about what Trump is doing. 

    However the face eating leopard schadenfreude they’ve engineered for the left is the only thing that I’m looking forward to with this guy.

  8. Maybe they’ll become Americans again. I’m not angry at Trump, he lied his lies. I’m disappointed at the fucks that voted for him. Again.

  9. Getting scammed is a small price to pay for these fools to be allowed to discriminate everything they don’t like.

  10. And those voters will twist themselves into knots to find a way to blame the left.

  11. They have ALREADY been scammed, because they voted for him. When things go wrong, they will blame immigrants, democrats, LGBTQ, feminists, crazy cat ladies, Martians — everyone except the ONE person who really scammed them.

  14. It’s been going on for the last 4 years,+

    My MAGA in laws went to a Trump Rally last year and came back with so much Trump branded tat, one of them was a $50 dollar bill with Trump’s face on they bought for.20bux.. apparently once Trump is president it would become legal currency, I look forward to hearing about how piggly wiggly have gone woke when they won’t accept it.

    now to be fair to Trump this is going on outside so he probably is not directly involved, but he’s not trying to stop it either.

  15. I’m really enjoying Krugman’s post-“retirement,” give no fucks truth-teller era

  16. The problem is, they’ve been so brainwashed that even when Trumps policies cause them harm, they’ll wholeheartedly believe the problems in their lives are the Democrats fault, and Trump is fighting for them, so they’ll continue to vote against their own self interests.

  17. I’m so far past the point of being done with trump supporters, sorry if this sounds callous but they can eat crow on this I’ll save my sympathy for the people who deserve it like those of us who voted against it.

  18. A tariff is inherently a regressive tax. The prices of non-discretionary goods will go up. Higher incomes don’t need to spend as much a percentage of their income on these as say a single mom living in poverty. It will be brutal.

  19. They haven’t been particularly secretive about how this is going to work.

    [Here’s an article from a month back by a couple of Republican representatives – The people who are actually empowered to make these laws.](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/china-abused-its-us-trade-relationship-trump-can-fix)

    This isn’t speculation from pundits, this is lawmakers telling you what laws they plan to make. So when they effectively implement a huge new sales tax on all of the consumers in America we know exactly what that new revenue is going to go towards.

    Is it reducing the deficit? Is it shoring up existing programs like social security? Is it even something like national security spending? No.

    >Our legislation then uses the revenue from these tariffs to compensate businesses targeted by possible Chinese retaliation.

    They’re going to cut checks to businesses they feel deserve some extra money, which definitely won’t be influenced by cronyism.

    People aren’t even being bamboozled here, the “reverse Robin Hood” scheme to tax the middle class and hand that money to friendly corporations is the out-in-the-open policy.

  20. And blame the Biden Administration because the dis-information machine supplying the orange Kool-Aid will blame everything on those pesky Democrats

  21. Usually, cult members don’t realize they’ve been had until the Kool Aid hits their stomach and the cramps start. If anything, I expect Republican voters to double down and go all in on fascism and blaming others long before they ever admit they were suckered.

  22. Who cares about the Trump voters they got what they wanted. Let them learn the hard way.

  23. “Will be”? As in the future? Hate to break it to you but the scam started years ago!

  25. They are salivating in a Pavlovian manner waiting to give their hard earned money to a self absorbed, egomaniacal, dictator wannabe.

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

    Lyndon B. Johnson

  26. I don’t think they care. He’s hurting ‘the others’ which is all they care about. It’ll hurt them too.

  28. MAGA will only notice when Grandma’s SS check is short….and not until that day.

    How did this happen ???

    Fox will tell them to blame the Democrats, and they will….

  29. They are OK with paying $20 more a month for whatever, as long as their neighbor down the road pays $30. They believe they are getting a better deal and don’t understand that both they and their neighbors are getting screwed. That is their simple understanding of the economy and tariffs.

  30. They will never figure it out and will happily return to the ballot box in 2026 for more

  31. They love being scammed

    It lets them feel Christ like.

  32. And they will still be blaming Dems and “others” for their problems after Trump has picked them clean.

  33. I wouldn’t say they’ve been scammed. That requires you to be an innocent party.

    Trump is a known rapist who cut taxes for the rich and bungled the covid response and there were like what, 80+ noble prize winning economists who warned that Trump would be terrible for the economy? Some of the biggest Wall Street firms also said he would be bad for the economy. Republicans run the same way every time. Blame minorities so that their imbecile followers will vote for them, they then use their power to cut taxes for the rich and make public services worse and harder to get, and then shock, their voters are suffering bc of those actions, but Republicans just tell them they’re suffering bc of minorities and the cycle never ends.

    Voter: Ow, you punched me in the face.
    Republican: Yes I did, but it only hurt bc that guy is trans.
    Voter: Okay, you can punch me again. Ow, that hurts. Please go punish the trans guy.
    Republican: It would also hurt less if we cut taxes on the rich.
    Voter: Okay, let’s do that.

    They voted for him bc they didn’t want to vote for a black woman. They voted for him bc they didn’t want to vote for a Democrat. They voted for him bc they wanted to punish immigrants. They voted for him bc they wanted to get rid of trans people.

    We know that Republicans are bad at running governments. The red states are all the worst performing states on every metric of economic, educational, and health success. And yet these morons keep voting for them bc they think Democrats are the enemy. They choose to watch Fox News and blame minorities for their problems rather than just vote for a Democrat who will actually help them. They haven’t been scammed, they just want to live in a world where they’re the victims and the other people are the problem.

  34. Trump will just blame Biden for all of it, and his supporters will believe it because they’re morons who fall for all of his lies.

  35. It’s not the Trump voters I worry about. It’s the others they’ve taken along on this ride.

  36. Is it a scam? Trump said repeatedly “I’m going to do all these things that will screw you over”, and they still voted for him.

  38. I couldn’t possibly care less about what happens to the shitstains that made this happen. I hope their future is not kind and I don’t feel bad about saying it. I am done with empathy.

  39. And the bigger problem is that they won’t *feel* scammed because of the propaganda they consume. Massive tax cuts for the rich don’t *immediately* screw them over so they’ll be feeling great even as the car is pointed at the cliff and the accelerator is pushed to the floor, because Fox News will be telling them that suddenly, magically, everything is amazing.

    Then when there’s the eventual crash, either by COVID 2.0 or some other disaster, they’ll find the way to shift the blame away from the people who deliberately sabotaged every social safety net and societal contingency plan. Because they’re a cult.

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