No To CEO

Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the “messaging” from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job is absurd, even in narrow political terms. Even if this wasn’t the consistent finding of political scientists, it should be intuitively obvious. Someone who’s out of work or working two crappy jobs or is terrified about losing their job isn’t going to become happy with the incumbent party because of some stirring rhetoric from an executive branch official, up to and including the president.