Paul Krugman: "The entire GOP now consists of apparatchiks."

This didn't come out of nowhere. Mann and Ornstein tried to tell you; I warned back in 2003 that the GOP had become a radical force that no longer accepted the norms of democracy, but people said I was "shrill"https://t.co/TiHgqsl3IPpic.twitter.com/0ycZafl6NA

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 19, 2018

So what we got from mainstream journalism and punditry, during the long buildup to this moment, was mainly bothsidesism -- culminating in the orgy of false equivalence or worse that was 2016 campaign coverage. And now the constitutional crisis is almost upon us

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 19, 2018