PAUL KRUGMAN, AMERICA’S LEAST PLAUSIBLE POPULIST:

In his column today he goes after “policy elitists” whom he describes as “self-appointed wise men, officials, and pundits in good standing” who go around “lecturing the rest of us.”

I thought that use of the word “us” was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while.

Pshaw — who amongst us hasn’t sighed wistfully to himself and said, “What? You’re driving me back to the airport in Sao Paulo, in all that traffic? Don’t I rate a helicopter?”