The Silence Of The Hacks Analysis

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In “The Silence of the Hacks” outspoken liberal and respected columnist Paul Krugman utilizes Russia’s involvement in the United States Presidential Election and the subsequent reaction to these allegations by members of the Republican Party in order to emphasize the corruption that is entrenched within the Republican Party and the rise of partisan politics. Krugman’s characterization of the Republican Party is in line with the viewpoints of fellow educated liberals.
Krugman dedicates the entirety of the first paragraph of the article to outlining the alleged communication between Trump campaign staff and Russian intelligence officials, but Krugman does this without naming Putin or Trump, instead he refers to them as “the dictator” and “the …show more content…
Bringing the attention away from Trump and onto his party. Krugman believes that Trump is not what has brought on the corruption, but rather exemplifies the “unmistakeable corruption of his party” (9). Krugman furthers his characterization of the GOP with a quotation from Senator Rand Paul: “‘We'll never even get started with doing the things we need to do… if we're spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans.’” (8). Not only does Krugman use this quotation as an opportunity to cement his characterization of Republicans, but he uses it to identify another issue in the Republican Party, and American politics on the whole: partisanship. Krugman emphasizes Republican’s obsession with partisanship, and general hatred of Hillary Clinton, through his comparisons between Republican’s reactions to Russian involvement in the election with their overzealous questioning of Clinton’s trustworthiness: Jason Chaffetz “hounded Hillary Clinton endlessly over Benghazi”, but “declared that ‘the situation has taken care of itself’” when asked about the Russian hacking scandal (6). By contrasting Chaffetz reactions to these scandals Krugman implies that Republicans are not only corrupt, but
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