KRUGMAN: White working-class voters keep voting for Republicans 'who say, outright, that they're lazy'

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning columnist and New York Times columnist, said Tuesday that he thinks white working-class voters in rural areas voted against their self interest in the 2016 election.
In a series of tweets, Krugman said many policies passed by Democrats — such as the Affordable Care Act — have benefitted the white working class in areas such as Kentucky. Yet as Krugman noted, these voters overwhelming supported Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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