Krugman’s Substack post today is a must-read (or must-watch). The YouTube video is above; the transcript is at Substack.
Krugman writes:
When we talk about Hitler’s last days, as I said, one of his last attempted acts was what’s called the Nero Decree, which was an attempt to destroy as much of Germany’s infrastructure as possible, supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies. But clearly, and even there’s some evidence that he actually he clearly thought this as a way of punishing the German people for failing him.
Now, historiography is a little more complicated than that, as it usually is, but that’s clearly the gist of it. That Hitler’s final acts were to basically try to bring everyone else down with him.
Do you really want to say that that’s not what’s going to happen with Trump?
Krugman is on sound historical ground on the Nero Decree:
German History in Documents and Images
Sealing the Third Reich’s Downfall: Adolf Hitler’s “Nero Decree”