Paul Krugman on illegitimacy
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There's a psychological term for this: Projection.
When Joe Biden is inaugurated, he will immediately be confronted with an unprecedented challenge — and I don’t mean the pandemic, although Covid-19 will almost surely be killing thousands of Americans every day. I mean, instead, that he’ll be the first modern U.S. president trying to govern in the face of an opposition that refuses to accept his legitimacy. And no, Democrats never said Donald Trump was illegitimate, just that he was incompetent and dangerous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/with-all-due-disrespect.html
Instead, let’s ask whether Mr. Lewis was right to say what he said. Is it O.K., morally and politically, to declare the man about to move into the White House illegitimate?
Yes, it is. In fact, it’s an act of patriotism.
By any reasonable standard, the 2016 election was deeply tainted. It wasn’t just the effects of Russian intervention on Mr. Trump’s behalf; Hillary Clinton would almost surely have won if the F.B.I. hadn’t conveyed the false impression that it had damaging new information about her, just days before the vote. This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency’s refusal to discuss the Russia connection.
"Democrats never said (President) Donald Trump was illegitimate."
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/jerrold-nadler-trump-election-illegitimate-wont-at/
“He was legally elected, but the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s weighing-in on the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate, puts an asterisk next to his name,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, said Monday on CNN.
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@Mik said in Paul Krugman on illegitimacy:
There's a GKSR for that.
There's also a need for the New York Times editorial board to do a little, you know, editing. Remember, this is the outlet that slammed Tom Cotton's op-ed for what it claimed were inaccuracies. A
2 X 4 upside the headgood hard look in the mirror would be appropriate.ETA: Another good thing about the internet is that it is, indeed, forever. It took a journalist about 30 seconds to find all those inconsistencies. That wouldn't have happened 30 years ago - Krugman's and Nadler's comments would have been memory-holed.
