She's right. To change one's mind about an issue may or may not be intellectually honest; but to insult those who are not in lockstep with one's own vicissitudes is childish at best.
In Krugman's case, the puffery is transparent. Marcus quotes:
Inside the Beltway, doomsaying about Social Security -- declaring that the program as we know it can't survive the onslaught of retiring baby boomers -- is regarded as a sort of badge of seriousness, a way of showing how statesmanlike and tough-minded you are... In fact, the whole Beltway obsession with the fiscal burden of an aging population is misguided.The first quote? Krugman, 2007. The second quote? Krugman, 1996.
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Where is the crisis? Just over the horizon, that's where. . . . Responsible adults are supposed to plan more than seven years ahead. Yet if you think even briefly about what the Federal budget will look like in 20 years, you immediately realize that we are drifting inexorably toward crisis; if you think 30 years ahead, you wonder whether the Republic can be saved.
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Words cannot begin to describe how much I can't stand Krugman's columns. I'm not even going to try but it's just horrible.
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