That is one way to understand why so much of the liberal establishment is rallying behind
Krugman's Army, as the "Occupy Wall Street" protests are known. Everything they believe in has failed, so they are turning nihilistic.
Sometimes the nihilism is good-naturedly goofy. The Washington Post's
Eugene Robinson: "Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love 'em. I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins." Vaginal monologist
Eve Ensler, at the Puffington Host: "What is happening cannot be defined. It is happening. It is a happening."
But there are menacing themes and tactics too. "We may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people," wrote
former Enron adviser Paul Krugman last week.
Krugman's New York Times colleague
David Brooks notes that Adbusters, the magazine credited with the idea of the protests, was "previously best known for the 2004 essay, '
Why Won't Anyone Say They Are Jewish?'--an investigative report that identified some of the most influential Jews in America and their nefarious grip on policy."
The demonization of "bankers," "plutocrats" and "the 1%" echoes age-old anti-Semitic tropes.
