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Paul Krugman: The Republicans say, ‘Let them eat hate’

J.D. Vance is one of them who is riling up the base against phantasms, threats that don’t even exist.

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) J.D. Vance, part of the crowded field for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 26, 2022. Vance and other notable figures in the Republican Party have turned to hate-based politics that follow the old playbook of czarist-era instigators of pogroms, writes the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.