Economist and liberal Paul Krugman came out with another thread explaining why Trump’s “Lysol moment” is going to be his last political moment, just like all the other last political moments, and he blabbed on and on for a while:
I could be wrong, but somehow the Lysol moment feels like it could be a psychological turning point — the moment when even a lot of Trump diehards face up to his essential unfitness 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 24, 2020
Those who went through the Bush years may remember how scandal after scandal, policy failure after policy failure, didn't seem to stick. The debacle in Iraq dented Bush's popularity, but not nearly as much as it should have 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 24, 2020
Wait. What. You’re comparing Trump’s silly and dumb comment to the Iraq War?! Huh??!
But Katrina somehow was the defining moment. Some of us had long understood Bush's inadequacy, but "Heckuva job, Brownie" as scenes of devastation played on TV broke through the denial 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 24, 2020
KATRINA?!?
And I have the feeling — which is all that it is — that suggesting that people inject themselves with disinfectant may in its own way be the comparable moment, when even the true believers run out of excuses 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 24, 2020
People predict this kind of stuff all the time, and Trump has weathered it all. I sincerely doubt his “Lysol moment” is gonna be any different, even though, admittedly, it was pretty stupid.
Of course I could be wrong. But right now my sense is that, to turn the pundit cliche on its head, yesterday was the day Trump stopped being president 5/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 24, 2020
Now of course, Krugman a public intellectual, he’s bound to have his own Lysol moments, and one of the Winklevosses helped him recall those:
Let's not forget your Lysol moments.
"Bitcoin is evil"
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
Sent from my iFaxhttps://t.co/r9LfwIyxHf
— Cameron Winklevoss (@winklevoss) April 25, 2020
Yikes. Anyone who spends their time commenting publicly on news and events is bound to have some embarrassing statements, but those are pretty big ones, right?
[hat tip: Carol Roth.]