Paul Krugman: Welcome to post-truth politics

Paul Krugman: Welcome to post-truth politics

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Suppose that President Barack Obama were to say the following: "Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and he believes that only corporations and the wealthy should have any rights. He wants to reduce middle-class Americans to serfs, forced to accept whatever wages corporations choose to pay, no matter how low."

How would this statement be received? I believe, and hope, that it would be almost universally condemned, by liberals as well as conservatives. Romney did once say that corporations are people, but he didn't mean it literally; he supports policies that would be good for corporations and the wealthy and bad for the middle class, but that's a long way from saying that he wants to introduce feudalism.

But now consider what Romney actually said last week: "President Obama believes that government should create equal outcomes. In an entitlement society, everyone receives the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort and willingness to take risk. That which is earned by some is redistributed to the others."

And in an interview the same day, Romney declared that the president "is going to put free enterprise on trial."

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