The Left has spent a year telling you they want revenge on Trump supporters.
Now a Nobel Prize-winning economist just told you exactly what that looks like.
What he called for borrows from a very dark chapter of history.
Paul Krugman Wants Trump Supporters Removed From Power After 2026 Midterms
Paul Krugman posted a video to YouTube that should end any remaining debate about what the American Left actually wants to do with its political opponents.
"We need to, obviously, defang Trump as much as possible," Krugman said, "and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections."
Then the former New York Times columnist rant took a dark turn.
"Beyond that, we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States," Krugman continued. "We need a deMAGAfication. And I'm not going over the top by using a word that's very similar to the denazification that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany."
A man who spent 24 years writing for the New York Times just compared 74 million American voters to defeated Nazis requiring removal from public life.
He said America under Trump is a "nightmare beyond even the worst fantasies" — and warned that without a full purge, "it's going to happen again."
This Is Not One Man's Opinion
Krugman didn't invent this idea. Fox News reported in January that prominent liberals had already been using the phrase "de-MAGAfication" to describe what they planned to do when Democrats retake power – and the specific threats against Americans were already piling up.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told a crowd at City Hall that federal immigration officers would face accountability after Trump leaves office.
"If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities," Krasner said. "We will find you."
NYU professor Scott Galloway called for a war crimes-style tribunal to prosecute Trump and his allies.
James Carville promised on YouTube in April that Democrats would "investigate you to no end" – then named Trump's children and their spouses specifically.
Krasner runs the DA's office in America's fifth-largest city and Carville has been the architect of Democratic strategy for thirty years.
Krugman put a name on what they were already planning.
Democrats are plotting retribution against the Trump administration, corporations, and ordinary MAGA supporters as soon they get the chance.
What Denazification Actually Meant in Nazi Germany
Krugman used the word "denazification" like it was a rhetorical flourish. It wasn't.
Denazification was the formal Allied program launched after World War II to strip Nazi ideology from German society – pulling Nazi Party members out of the judiciary, civil service, press, and schools based solely on their political affiliation.
It meant tribunals and blacklists, forced confessions and mass political disqualification — applied to a country that had just murdered six million Jews and launched a war that killed 70 million people.
Krugman thinks the people who voted to lower your taxes and secure the border deserve the same treatment.
The American Left spent years screaming that Trump was building a fascist authoritarian state.
Now their leading intellectual is calling for a political purge of his opponents – and the people threatening to carry it out are named, elected, and already drawing up lists.
He called your neighbors Nazis and demanded they be treated accordingly.
So much for the tolerant Left.
Sources:
- Sean James, "Ex-NYT Columnist Paul Krugman Calls for 'De-MAGAfication' of USA: 'Similar to the Denazification' of Germany Post-WWII," Mediaite, June 1, 2026.
- Paul Krugman, "Learning from a Mentally Ill President," Substack, June 1, 2026.
- Alexander Hall, "Top Liberals Anticipate Prosecution, Humiliation of Trump and His MAGA Allies When Dems Regain Power," Fox News, January 31, 2026.
- Alexander Hall, "Carville Gloats That Democrats Will Go After Trump's 'Stupid Jacka– Kids and Their Spouses' After Midterms," Fox News, April 2, 2026.
