Cool Kids

Atrios gets at fundamentals:

It isn’t quite as extreme, but there are a lot of similarities between now and the Iraq debate. All of the Cool Kids know how fucking right austerity is, and are condescending to all of the silly children who think they’re wrong. Team Austerity is where the cool kids are, at the parties with the fancy drinks, and all the losers hang out at that dorky Paul Krugman’s house, playing dungeons and dragons.

None of those nerdy D&D anti-austerity people who hang out with Krugman are getting invited to Megan McArdle’s holiday party, that’s for sure.