MAGA Will Soon 'Be Relegated to the Dustbin of History': Nobel Economist [View all]

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MAGA Will Soon ‘Be Relegated to the Dustbin of History’: Nobel Economist
by Sarah K. Burris | December 31, 2025 - 6:10am

— from Alternet


In a Tuesday column, Paul Krugman noted that even the most powerful organizations, like the Heritage Foundation, can fall and it's emblematic of what could also happen next to MAGA.

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The Nobel Prize-winning economist asserted that the Heritage Foundation isn't exactly known for its credibility in the broader political world. Until now, he wrote that its role in the conservative movement had been "provide an intellectual gloss by producing what looked to the gullible — i.e., many people in the news media — like credible research.”

But now even the group's perceived credibility has disappeared, Krugman said.

"Now that its illusion of credibility is gone, what is Heritage good for?” Krugman wrote, noting that there was little point for the group's millionaire and billionaire donors to continue funding the organization. He added that the MAGA movement doesn't need "any genuine policy research," and argued that voters instead go off their gut. President Donald Trump doesn't need.

Krugman wrote that neither President Donald Trump nor the next leader of the MAGA movement needs "expertise, or even the illusion of expertise."

“What the debacle at Heritage suggests, however, is that many of these fellow-travelers have limits," he explained. "There are lines even corrupt institutions can’t cross without provoking mass defections. And such defections are, I believe, how MAGA will eventually be relegated to the dustbin of history."

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