Paul Krugman Reveals the Despicable Motivations Behind Trump's Most Powerful GOP Supporters

Paul Krugman is tired of mincing words about Donald Trump, "an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying egomaniac." And he is even more damning in Friday's column about the fact that most senior Republicans, especially House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, are still supporting him even with this week's despicable threat of violence against Hillary Clinton.

Why are they still supporting him? In Krugman's view, because their proposals are con jobs, and all they want to do is reduce taxes on the rich, which will be much harder to do if Clinton wins. That's the short answer.

Krugman suggests that the key to Republican thinking lies in one number: 34....
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