Krugman on Trump

From Alternet:

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued Thursday evening that President Donald Trump's rhetoric and policies toward immigrants mirror some of the darkest elements of historical anti-Semitism.

"What’s almost equally remarkable about this plunge into barbarism is that it’s not a response to any actual problem," he writes in a column titled "Return of the Blood Libel." "The mass influx of murderers and rapists that Trump talks about, the wave of crime committed by immigrants here (and, in his mind, refugees in Germany), are things that simply aren’t happening. They’re just sick fantasies being used to justify real atrocities."

He continued: "And you know what this reminds me of? The history of anti-Semitism, a tale of prejudice fueled by myths and hoaxes that ended in genocide."