Krugman is getting close to the edge

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90. Even that doesn't work

The people who opposed the Iraq War on TV largely disappeared. The people who were for the war are still there.

"I told you so," doesn't work when the standard is, "Even if you were right you were wrong to be right at the time you were right."

If I thought there were WMD then that means all smart reasonable people thought there were WMD. Anyone who said otherwise was thus being reckless and dumb. So when it tuned out I was wrong and they were right that only proves that they were accidentally right because they are irresponsible people. My judgment was clearly the responsible judgment, right or wrong.

Like how the whole stimulus debate went from, "The stimulus is adequate," to, "The stimulus is inadequate but was all that could have been passed."

If you were right you were only right because you are dumb and irresponsible.

During the 1940s-1950s red scares there was a category of communistic activity called "premature anti-fascism." Communists were very against Hitler from word one and people who complained about Hitler before it was fashionable were suspect. And people who didn't complain about Hitler after we were officially against Hitler were suspect as Nazis.