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New York Times’ Krugman: Tea Party Was Always About Racism

Hank Berrien
New York Times’ Krugman: Tea Party Was Always About Racism
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On Wednesday, leftist economist Paul Krugman of The New York Times flat-out called the Tea Party racist, barking, “It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger; opposition to big government only to the extent that it helps Those People.”

Krugman was responding to a story in The New York Times, his home paper, that argued that the Tea Party was no longer interested in reducing the national deficit. The article stated:

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