I can’t remember an instance of newspapers polling Americans about their feelings, then telling them their answers are not only wrong, but ignorant! The Guardian takes the additional hilarious step of blasting respondents for making it harder to “sell” the story the economy is doing well.

Krugman, last seen citing the sqme unemployment stat and insisting those who complain about the economy are Republicans bent on “giving Vladimir Putin victory,” now says the problem is “psychological,” because people want to think higher incomes are personal reward rather than monetary side-effect. …

Have these people considered that questions about the economy aren’t a political referendum on Joe Biden for the people answering them? That they may just having a hard time paying bills and can’t give The Guardian or Paul Krugman the answers they want?

[How dare their readers get in the way of their narratives! A few years ago, I’d have chalked this up as Pauline Kael Syndrome, but I think this is more calculated. The Guardian and the Times are basically scolding their readers to toe the party line and shaming them for engaging in Wrongthink. The polls are offered to see how much scolding is required, and not because the outlets actually want a reality check inside their ideological bubble. — Ed]