Today’s Krugman is not to be missed: “Know-Nothing Politics.” The term “anti-intellectualism” covers the same ground, but it probably has too many syllables for the people who need to understand it. Though his words be immediately taken out of context (hell, I’ve done it in the title of this post), the point isn’t that Republicans are stupid. The point is that the Republican party has earned a lot of political clout by repeatedly asserting that every problem has an overtly simple solution and that thinking things through is both effeminate and ineffective (you could extrapolate this to politicians in general, but it’s currently the stock-in-trade of the GOP). BushCo’s reign of error has certainly shown the flaw in that “logic.” But that doesn’t seem to shake people’s faith in the (toxic) idea.