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Go read now . Here’s an excerpt from Kevin Drum’s excerpt from Krugman’s intro to his latest book, The Great Unraveling (elisions are Drum’s.)

There’s a pattern… within the Bush administration… which should suggest that the administration itself has radical goals. But in each case the administration has reassured moderates by pretending otherwise — by offering rationales for its policy that don’t seem all that radical. And in each case moderates have followed a strategy of appeasement… this is hard for journalists to deal with: they don’t want to sound like crazy conspiracy theorists. But there’s nothing crazy about ferreting out the real goals of the right wing; on the contrary, it’s unrealistic to pretend that there isn’t a sort of conspiracy here, albeit one whose organization and goals are pretty much out in the open…

(Via Electrolite )