Nobel Prize Winner Slams Former US President Donald Trump For Calling Kamala Harris A ‘Communist’

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman claims that former US President Donald Trump is making a desperate political maneuver by attempting to smear Vice President Kamala Harris by labeling her a “communist.”

Krugman told the New York Times, “Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris,”

Krugman questions labeling Harris as a ‘communist.’

Krugman clarifies that Harris’s policies are more in line with those of a social democrat, advocating for government programs like Medicare and Social Security to help cushion individuals from the adverse impacts of a market economy. “America’s social safety net is less comprehensive than those in Western Europe. Even so, we have a universal retirement system, Social Security, and universal health care for seniors, Medicare,” he said.

Krugman points out that these programs enjoy “overwhelming [American] public support”, including a substantial number of Republicans.

“So where does this Kamala-the-communist stuff come from?” Krugman wonders. He suggests, “It could be that Republicans believe they can convince voters that a moderately center-left Democrat who is a former prosecutor is a communist because she’s a Black woman — a twist, perhaps, on the “welfare queen” trope of another era.”