Instead of “going over the top,” a TDS-suffering economist appeared to have flown “Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in a call to “do something beyond getting rid of Trump.”
As virtually everything in society has become politicized, the vitriol from the left has steadily increased beyond just raging against President Donald Trump and his allies to include his supporters as well. Sunday, Paul Krugman continued a track record of radical forecasts by arguing in favor of a “de-MAGAfication” of the country akin to the denazification of Germany post-World War II.
The Keynesian economist and former columnist for the New York Times shared a more than six-minute video of himself that began by calling the president “mentally ill” and asserting “everybody knows that,” only to conclude with a defense for his hyperbolic comparison of Trump supporters to Nazis.
“We need to obviously … defang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections,” insisted Krugman. “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a de-MAGAfication, 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.”
Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States.”
“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification.”
This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years. pic.twitter.com/sSew0GWNC3
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 1, 2026
At the video’s onset, the outspoken Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner decried a recent statement from the chief executive that he would headline an event on the National Mall for America’s 250th birthday after a roster of entertainers backed out, alleging the event was not “non-partisan.”
By Krugman’s assessment, the current situation in the country amounts to a “nightmare beyond, I think, even the worst fantasies of progressives — beyond the worst fantasies of conservatives who still have a conscience.”
“If we don’t do something beyond just getting rid of Trump, it’s gonna happen again,” he concluded.
In August, after the economist dubbed the president’s tariff policy “Smoot Hawley 2.0,” Trump called out Krugman for “predicting Doom and Gloom” since he was first elected in 2016. “In other words, he has been wrong for YEARS, as ALL markets have been hitting new HIGHS, and are now higher than ever before. People stayed out of the ‘BEST MARKET IN [HISTORY]’ because of this Trump Deranged BUM. Sue them!”
On top of the reality that the leading Democratic Senate candidate in Maine — and by extension, large swaths of talking heads on the left — has defended a since-covered tattoo, denying it featured a Nazi symbol, Krugman’s apparent Trump Derangement Syndrome prompted reactions echoing the president’s sentiment on the economist’s record as well as slamming the persistent rhetoric associated with multiple assassination attempts on the chief executive.
Of course, some agreed with a call for “a purging,” just not in the way Krugman intended, as one user suggested, “A purging of our Higher Learning institutions that have become nothing more than glorified, over-priced re-education camps for marxism. The early founders of Yale, Harvard, etc. are rolling in their graves.”
Yes, I agree, we do need a purging. A purging of our Higher Learing institutions that have become nothing more than glorified, over-priced re-education camps for marxism. The early founders of Yale, Harvard, etc. are rolling in their graves.
— BigRedGoldie (@BigRedGoldie) June 2, 2026
He hasn’t been right about much besides telling correct time & spelling his name right in the past 20 years.
Said the Internet’s impact on the economy be no more than the Fax machine’s. Inflation forecasts after Covid-era stimulus = crap.
Post 2016 Market Predictions all bad!— John Augustine (@BudHolly411) June 1, 2026
FAX! 😅 pic.twitter.com/0cy2qsuY3G
— Bender (@BenderBiteMySMA) June 2, 2026
This tracks with mainstream leftist thought leaders, influencers and elected Democrats. 🤷♂️
— Texas Boomer (@TheTexasBoomer) June 1, 2026
We need a de-Krugmanification, is what we need.
— Vice Admiral (@viceadm80452) June 2, 2026
Seems like we need a de-Nazification of the Democrat Party pic.twitter.com/qjjjJQ7aV1
— AlexaShrugged (@AlexaShrugged) June 2, 2026
He says he didn’t go over the top but, it appears he Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
— JP (@J_P1776) June 1, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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