Krugman Slices and Dices Vance

 
It's not me saying it, but I am quoting Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, and I am persuaded he is right. Three quotes from his recent column in The New York Times:

"Trump and Vance have a lot of things,  including this, in common: They're both con men who despise their most avid supporters."

"Vance, despite stiff competition, may be the most cynical major figure in modern American politics. You never know whether Trump believes the false things he says; Vance is smart enough to know that he has pulled off a monumental political bait-and-switch."

Vance "shows startling contempt for the people he grew up with." Contempt for who? Krugman says it is the common folk, those who are not elite. He quotes from Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, to make his point.

Those are not nice things Krugman, one of the world's most-respected economists, has to say about Vance.