Paul Krugman is a retired economics writer and 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, and a former columnist with the New York Times–a former newspaper. He was often wrong,–disastrously, laughably wrong–but never in doubt. In a May 31, 2026 YouTube video, he was wrong again, and if his advice were followed, disastrously wrong again. This time his topic isn’t economics. It’s de-MAGAfication.
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Former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued the United States needs to go through a “de-MAGAfication” process after President Donald Trump leaves office, just like Germany went through a Denazification process following World War II.
“We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States,” Krugman said. “We need a de-MAGAgfication, and I am not going over the top by using a word that is very similar to the Denazification that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.
Oh, Krugman has gone so far over the top even supplemental oxygen won’t help him.
“That came a moment after Krugman said the U.S. needs to “obviously” make sure Trump fans are blocked from positions of power once the president exits the White House. “We need to de-fang Trump as much as possible,” he said.
And just how would this be accomplished? Would Democrats outlaw the Republican Party, perhaps allowing only the most radical Marxist/Islamist candidates to run for and hold public office? And what would be the penalty for violating such laws? Twenty years in prison? Death?
Krugman continued complaining about Trump’s America, saying it is a “nightmare beyond even the worst fantasies.” He added the country is doomed to repeat the horrors of the Trump administration, in his view, if Americans “whitewash” this part of history.
“If we don’t do something beyond just getting rid of Trump, it’s going to happen again,” Krugman warned.
Oh dear. What, exactly, is going to happen again? The DOJ and the rest of the federal government won’t be weaponized against Normal Americans? Taxes and regulations won’t be ruinously increased? Unnecessary federal jobs won’t be eliminated? Untold billions in fraud won’t be rooted out and prosecuted? The First and Second Amendments won’t be eliminated? America won’t reap hundreds of billions in tariffs in America’s favor? There won’t be unprecedented trillions in foreign investment in America? Real incomes won’t go up, and unemployment won’t go down? NATO nations will no longer pay what they’ve agreed to pay in defending themselves and the alliance? Everyone and their dog—actually—won’t be able to vote anymore, “everyone” including illegal aliens and the dead?
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America won’t stop Islamic madmen from getting and using nuclear weapons? America will have to elect sane, mentally sound presidents? DEI won’t be forced down Americans’ throats, and children won’t be transed? Trans won’t be exposing their fake breasts on the White House lawn anymore? Roads and bridges won’t be racist anymore? Abortion won’t be a state-regulated choice, but a national mandate? The fountains in DC won’t be full of bird poop and debris, and the monuments won’t be covered with graffiti? And the insane homeless won’t be pooping and pissing everywhere they haven’t left needles? Americas’ borders won’t be closed and immigration law enforced? The stock market won’t be regularly setting records? Inflation and interest rates won’t be low? That’s what Krugman doesn’t want to happen again?
Krugman has long been an over-the-top Trump critic, which provoked this 2025 Truth Social blast:
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Is Krugman speaking figuratively, or is he stopping just short of calling for the “purging”—forcible deprogramming or deaths—of Normal Americans? Would he and the rest of the Democrats stop with putting them in camps, as a recent, failed Democrat candidate advocated for America’s Jews, or would a more final solution be required? After all, figuratively nuking them from orbit would be the only way to be sure. On the other hand, does America really need all those annoying red states? Wouldn’t America be better off without all that MAGA?
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I’ve often wondered, considering the contemporary Democrat Party and the antics and rhetoric of its leaders and their street thugs, whether it is possible to live with such people? Unlike Krugman, I don’t remotely suggest de-Democrating them or imprisoning or assassinating them. I only question whether it’s possible for people who clearly hate America, Americans, and the Constitution to coexist with people who don’t?
To be fair, Krugman is only repeating, very thinly veiled, what the Democrat Party is saying out loud these days. They, and he, want a single-party state, and they’re more than willing to do whatever is necessary to get it. With that kind of determination, nuking Nebraska isn’t off the table.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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