“Bad People Who Are Stunningly Ignorant” Are Running the Country, Nobel Winner Warns

Feb 8, 2025 | Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist Paul Krugman issued a warning this week that the United States is being run by “bad people who are stunningly ignorant,” and that might be the most on-point analysis of what’s happening in the country today. Donald Trump has no idea what he’s doing, and neither do the people that he’s put in charge of federal agencies like Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Linda McMahon. We are a confederacy of dunces for sure, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.