A New York Times Share Holder Celebrates Mr. Krugman's Latest Opus.

The New York Times Centrist Scold is back! And not a moment too soon.

To fill the dangerous void of Very Serious Establishment Types Explaining Why Nothing Can Be Done, Hillary supporter and erstwhile Nobel economist Paul Krugman has once again returned to his newest role as Guru Of Politics, History, Society And Pretty Much Everything.

And his new tune is pretty much the same as his old tune.

Guess what? Nothing can be done. Still.

Gee, thanks, Oracle Paul.

But that’s not all. He still wants you to know he’s Totally A Progressive. And Feels Bad.

Oh he sneers at Bernie backers for chasing unicorns. It’s in the title of his article. But he also will have you know, that in the ideal, he really really really really wants those unicorns too, in the form of:

[a] strong social safety net that protects everyone against avoidable misery, workers with substantial bargaining power, strong environmental policy; not an equalized society, not a Utopia, but someplace where basic decency is a fundamental principle.

It’s pretty strange for a Guru who keeps insisting he is sooooo “progressive” to give up on having “an equalized society” (whatever the heck that is) right off the bat. But still, sounds nice! Let’s do it!

Not so fast! Centrist Scold Paul wasn’t finished:

But nothing like that is going to happen in America any time soon. If we’re going to have any kind of radical change in the next few years and probably the next couple of decades, it will come from the right, not the left.

OK then! Never mind. Forget the unicorns. See, because Krugman asserts, based on no evidence, no facts, no historical events, no social trends, and apparently nothing at all beyond Tea Party-induced terror, that it’s all over for decades.

No Change From The Left is possible. Why not? Because it can only come from the right! And why is that? Who knows? Krugman Says!

Well golly gee, Centrist Scold. That doesn’t really sound all that convincing. [Imagined Oz-like Krugman Voice From Above]: Silence, Peasant! Grovel At The Mystery Of My Reasoning!

Ugh.

The magical mystery deepens when The Great And Powerful Krugman admits that his preferred candidate herself is offering unicorns that cannot be passed by the pending GOP Congress.

But Hillary’s unicorns are much better than Bernie’s. Why, you ask? Centrist Scold is way, way ahead of you. He’s got not one but two reasons:

One is that there are degrees of realism: a program that could be implemented in part if Democrats retake the House might turn out to be a useful guide relatively soon, while a program that requires a political revolution won’t.

See, Hillary’s unicorns are better because an imaginary future Democratic House would pass them much easier!

But, Centrist Scold, how could she get a Democratic Congress elected, given her dismal favorability ratings, lack of any political movement behind her, and the demonstrated failure of the incrementalist but at least charismatic Obama to make midterm gains? Wouldn’t Bernie stand a better chance at retaking the House with the momentum of a fully-developed movement at his back?

[Krugman Oz voice]: SILENCE! [Smoke blasts] Now hear my second reason Hillary unicorns rule all!:

Another is that, perhaps inevitably, the Sanders insistence on the need for magical unicorns has led to invocations of economic as well as political magic.

Ah, familiar terrain for Centrist Scold! Yes, he jumps right back into the utter lunacy of single-payer and how it’s Much More Expensive than we think and how It Will Hurt The Middle Classes and…

But wait! Centrist Scold, didn’t you defend single-payer in 2008? And don’t you agree single-payer and quasi-single-payer systems are the much more efficient norm in the entire Western world?

[Krugman Oz voice]: SILENCE! You understand NOTHING. Only the TRUE PROGRESSIVE admits all TRUE PROGRESSIVE GOALS are UNATTAINABLE! Wisdom is inaction! The status quo is perfect! Anything but tinkering one day in a few decades is MADNESS!

Just don’t look behind the curtain, right, Centrist Scold?