Krugman: The Determination of a Lot of People to Say ‘It’s a Recession’ Is Above and Beyond Anything I’ve Ever Seen

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KRUGMAN: "Yes, I would say that this is especially vitriolic. I mean, I get — you know, I've been in this business for a couple of decades and get lots of hate mail and see stuff. I've never seen anything as bad as this. The determination of a lot of people to say it's a recession is above and beyond anything I've ever seen."
STELTER: "What do you think is driving that? Just partisanship and polarization getting worse and worse every year and thus this?"
KRUGMAN: "Yes, partisanship, people want it. It's the Biden recession. They want their Biden recession, they're going to have it, never mind the fact that, you know, that it, in fact, is not a recession in any technical sense."