{"id":33942,"date":"2026-08-26T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=33942"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:11:09","slug":"krugman-trump-is-destroying-what-he-cannot-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=33942","title":{"rendered":"Krugman: Trump is destroying what he cannot dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-qp1smaktwhs\" style=\"max-width:840px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:75.000000%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-qp1smaktwhs\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QP1Smaktwhs?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"630\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QP1Smaktwhs?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"840\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=33942#arve-youtube-qp1smaktwhs\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/QP1Smaktwhs?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Krugman&#8217;s Substack post today is a must-read (or must-watch). The YouTube video is above; the <a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/der-untergang\">transcript is at Substack<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Krugman writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>When we talk about Hitler\u2019s last days, as I said, one of his last attempted acts was what\u2019s called the Nero Decree, which was an attempt to destroy as much of Germany\u2019s infrastructure as possible, supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies. But clearly, and even there\u2019s some evidence that he actually he clearly thought this as a way of punishing the German people for failing him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, historiography is a little more complicated than that, as it usually is, but that\u2019s clearly the gist of it. That Hitler\u2019s final acts were to basically try to bring everyone else down with him.<\/p>\n<p>Do you really want to say that that\u2019s not what\u2019s going to happen with Trump?<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Krugman is on sound historical ground on the Nero Decree:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germanhistorydocs.org\/en\/nazi-germany-1933-1945\/hitlers-scorched-earth-decree-nero-decree-march-19-1945-and-albert-speers-response-march-29-1945\">German History in Documents and Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/sealing-third-reichs-downfall-adolf-hitlers-nero-decree\">Sealing the Third Reich&#8217;s Downfall: Adolf Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Nero Decree&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nero_Decree\">Wikipedia on the Nero Decree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman&#8217;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\u2019s last days, as I said, one of his last attempted acts was what\u2019s called the Nero Decree, which was an attempt to destroy as much of Germany\u2019s infrastructure as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=33942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Krugman: Trump is destroying what he cannot dominate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33949,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions\/33949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}