Krugman: Trump only Exhibit A for the pettiness of the powerful

Donald Trump isn’t exactly Don Quixote, but he does have a thing against windmills.

Indeed, Trump’s animus toward wind power is one of the strangest obsessions of a man with many unusual preoccupations (toilets! hair spray!). Over the years, he has asserted, falsely, that wind turbines can cause cancer, that they can cause power outages and that wind energy “kills all the birds” (cats and windows do far more harm). Now he says that if he wins in November, on “Day One” he’ll issue an executive order putting the brakes on offshore wind farm construction.

Trump claims, without evidence, that such wind farms are whale killers; either way, though, if you think he cares about whales, I have some Truth Social stock you might want to buy.

But the windmills of Trump’s mind aside, there’s a broader story here, one that goes well beyond the former president: the remarkable pettiness of many powerful people, and the danger that it poses both to American democracy and to the future of the planet.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/krugman-trump-only-exhibit-a-for-the-pettiness-of-the-powerful/