In a series of tweets on Saturday morning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman raked conservatives over the coals for spiraling into false flag accusations, saying it is just the latest manifestation of the GOP becoming the party on conspiracy kooks.

Pointing to an article in the conservative Weekly Standard calling out “#FalseFlag conservatives,” Krugman wrote, “How are conservatives reacting to the MAGAbomber? In two contradictory ways. Many are declaring that the acts of one individual say nothing about their broader movement. Yet many implicitly acknowledge the opposite, by rushing into false-flag theories.”

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With that, he was off, tying the pushback about a supposed Trump booster who was targeting critics of the president with mail bombs — which turned out to be true — to recent GOP complaints about the “deep state.”

‘In any case, it’s really important to understand how predictable the false-flag claims were — because conspiracy theorizing is central to the modern right,” he wrote before adding, “After all, the deep state stuff comes from an ongoing right-wing meme. Also remember, it’s more or less standard on the right to assert that thousands of scientists around the world are part of a conspiracy to fake evidence for climate change.”

He later tweeted, “And the conspiracy theorizing is itself part of an even broader attitude on the right: this is a movement that never accepts evidence that contradicts its preconceptions.”

You can see the tweets below:

How are conservatives reacting to the MAGAbomber? In two contradictory ways. Many are declaring that the acts of one individual say nothing about their broader movement. Yet many implicitly acknowledge the opposite, by rushing into false-flag theories 1/ https://t.co/7MTSUCbFXn — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

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And no doubt we'll see a lot of double-think: an individual's actions say nothing, and also he was a deep-state plant. In any case, it's really important to understand how predictable the false-flag claims were — because conspiracy theorizing is central to the modern right 2/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

After all, the deep state stuff comes from an ongoing right-wing meme. Also remember, it's more or less standard on the right to assert that thousands of scientists around the world are part of a conspiracy to fake evidence for climate change. 3/ https://t.co/WLlpv0DQ1W — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

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And the conspiracy theorizing is itself part of an even broader attitude on the right: this is a movement that never accepts evidence that contradicts its preconceptions. Think about the way the GOP clings to belief in the magic of tax cuts in the teeth of experience 4/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

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Remember when Jerry Brown raised taxes in CA, while Sam Brownback cut them in KS. CA was committing "economic suicide", said the right, while the KS tax cuts were a grand "experiment" that would validate supply-side economics. Um 5/ pic.twitter.com/rWK9EEyJ0C — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

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Yet the GOP, including supposed moderates (there aren't any in real life) bought int claims that the Trump tax cut would create so much growth that it would pay for itself. This party that doesn't let evidence get in the way of prejudices — and invents conspiracies as needed 6/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018

My point is that it's all of a piece: there's a straight line running from voodoo economics, to climate change denial, to deep state paranoia and the false flag hysteria we're seeing this weekend. And pious appeals for civility are not going to change anything 7/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 27, 2018