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On Economic Fatalism and Elections

By David Paul Kuhn
It's an old myth that economics determine elections. Yet this myth has recently been recycled from New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman to The Washington Post's Ezra Klein. By implication, their argument absolves Democrats of responsibility for their formidable headwinds. But it also evokes deeper questions that transcend the coming election cycle and concern how we understand every cycle. This... (Read Full Article)

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