You Can Call Him Al

On this week’s Al Franken podcast, his guest is Paul Krugman for a show he calls, “Paul Krugman on Arguing with Republican Zombies.  Al write, “The NYT columnist and Nobel Prize winner discusses how Republicans operate in bad faith on issues like climate, tax cuts, deficits, income and wealth inequality, and now, the pandemic.”  (By the way, “Zombies” here doesn’t mean the cult of unthinking dead-head cultists.  Rather it’s a Krugman term for people with ideas that have long-since been proven wrong and dead, but those dead ideas won’t stay dead, like “Tax cuts will create jobs” that he notes has been disproven over and over and over, yet keeps coming to life.)