Wow...mostly wind.  I think Krugman is a liberal, and there were GOP liberals and progressives, back when they read their bibles. Is he partisan? So what!  I'm sure he has thought about the issues and I appreciate what he's saying...the angry white males voted for people whose policies hurt them. And yes Pres. Bill Clinton, who was the best Republican President since Eisenhower, did some dumb things in the name of deregulation that screwed up banking and helped create the bubble...but so did lines of credit tied to your house and lower taxes on the wealthy.  The lines of credit created another bubble, one that masked the lack of wages, as people spent their equity. You could buy a car by borrowing money on your home... a really stupid idea, and something Krugman warned about. So yes they are angry, yet if they think Trump gives a crap, they are wrong, again. And they will somehow blame me for their stupidity.