Paul Krugman nails it: Why we're on DEMOCRATIC Underground

[MisterP]

99. uh-oh, he's bringing criteria into the mix again

he says Dems are good because every single one will

"seek to maintain the basic U.S. social insurance programs — Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — in essentially their current form," not do tax cuts for the rich (or, presumably, otherwise favor them), and "try to move forward on climate policy" and that "Wall Street, furious over regulations and modest tax hikes, has deserted the party en masse"

of course, this merely shows that despite trying to block any dissent before the fact by saying that "anyone who has been paying attention" will see this, he himself hasn't paid any attention since 2000-2; Anyone But Bush is wonderful because they're going to be for X, Y, and Z, and they never could attack X, Y, and Z, so why ask me to condemn a democrat if they turn on X, Y, and Z? because they can't! they're Democrats! if anyone told him they opposed Hillary because she'd be actively for/open to Chained CPI, H1Bs, lots of war, Wall Street, fracking, drilling, and TPP, he could only deny that she could ever be so, because she's a Dem, don't you see?!

but of course like with George Will's insistence that liberals support trains because they have schedules and that thus makes riders into sheeple ready for NWO social engineering, he's not writing to make any sort of convincing argument but to reinforce certain terms of discourse: Krugman's just plumping for the "Dems = liberals" equation: if you say that her populism's phony, well, you have to be wrong because she's the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being he's ever known in his life: he doesn't care about the programs he lists unless they can further the Dems, and assumes they're just going to be automatically protected once we win the WH and Congress