Krugman on the election: “The Great Revulsion”

Everybody always wants to know what Krugman’s take is. It’s a good one, and it seems not to be behind the NYT firewall.

. . . . But I do hope and believe that this election marks the beginning of the end for the conservative movement that has taken over the Republican Party.
In saying that, I’m not calling for . . . the end of conservatism. There always have been and always will be conservatives on the American political scene. But we may be seeing the downfall of movement conservatism — the potent alliance of wealthy individuals, corporate interests and the religious right that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s. . . .

When movement conservatism took it over, the Republican Party ceased to be the party of Dwight Eisenhower and became the party of Karl Rove. . . . Two years ago, people were talking about permanent right-wing dominance . . . . But since then the American people have gotten a clearer sense of what rule by movement conservatives means. They’ve seen the movement take us into an unnecessary war, and botch every aspect of that war. They’ve seen a great American city left to drown; they’ve seen corruption . . .; they’ve seen the hypocrisy of those who lecture us on morality.

And they just said no.