Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says former US President Donald Trump is on a desperate political move and trying to defame Vice President Kamala Harris by calling her “communist”. Krugman told the New York Times, “Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris,” “No, I don’t mean privately calling her the B-word, although he reportedly does. I mean ‘communist.
’” According to Krugman, Trump and his supporters have started labelling Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, as “communists” in response to the growing momentum of their political campaign. “Ronald Reagan was a part of Operation Coffee Cup, an effort to convince voters that government health insurance, in the form of Medicare, would destroy American freedom”, he wrote in the NYT op-ed. ALSO READ| Donald Trump gushes over Kamala Harris' appearance on Time Magazine's cover, compares her 'beautiful' looks with.
.. The Nobel Prize-winning economist points out that, “Harris obviously isn't a communist.
” Krugman argues that this tactic revives former President Ronald Reagan's “redbaiting” strategies, which sought to convince Americans that government programs like Medicare would lead to the loss of their freedoms. Krugman wonders why the ‘communist’ attack on Harris? Krugman goes on to explain that Harris's policies align more closely with those of a social democrat, someone who believes in government programs like Medicar.