RE MAR-A-LAGO COMES FOR BRITISH HEALTH KRUGMAN FIGHTING THE COURSE OF HISTORY

Krugman is not usually seen fighting the course of history.

Here he makes what seems to be a reasonable argument for the NHS being a great and efficient bulwark of British national life, and of the British eonomy even, in terms of its healthcare dimension.

But he is shadow boxing with himself here, 
Fighting the Course of History in front of a journalistic mirror, while going with The Course of History on another day and in another economic sector or sectors,  or in a different analytic context.

You have to recall that he is also a Mr Globalization when he wears his other hat.

So when he lauds any country with a working domestic program, remember that his globalization hat  gives not a shit for the NHS, or any other program predicated on a healthy integral and native economic system, insulated to some necessary extent from the blandishments of global competition.

Thus, when Trump rubs the British the wrong way about letting American private companies invade the NHS, a frankly globalist blandishment which Krugman on another day should logically like and applaud, Trump is only talking Krugman's own LIEO liberal free trade language, the language Krugman himself speaks when Krugman is wearing his other hat.

But Krugman, of course, is not going to tell you all anything like that himself.

I have to tell you.