Economist Paul Krugman argues in a Monday, October 28 New York Times column that Donald Trump’s “biggest, potentially most consequential con has been political: portraying himself as a different kind of Republican, an ally of working Americans.” Krugman submits that “Americans correctly remember Trump’s prepandemic economy as an era of strong job growth and rising wages — largely, I’d argue, because Republicans in Congress opened the fiscal spigots after austerity during the Obama years slowed recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.” However, “Many also implicitly discount or memory-hole the …