KAROL MARKOWICZ: Don’t buy the attacks on Trump’s Fed picks. Well, they were going to say pretty much the same thing about anyone he picked, because that’s the way things work now.

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait similarly called Cain “an unqualified hack.” Chait, like Krugman, does this to every ­Republican. In 2003, he wrote a piece for The New Republic that began: “I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it.”

Cain and Moore, in other words, shouldn’t have expected fair treatment from the mainstream media. Yet both men have the right experience for the Fed seats to which they are likely to be nominated.

Start with Cain, whose US Senate campaign I worked on in 2004 and who has extensive experience in economics and finance.

From 1995 to 1997, he served as the chairman of the Federal ­Reserve Bank of Kansas City, having served as deputy chairman for two years before that.

If that’s not relevant experience, what’s the point of the Regional Bank Boards?

As for Stephen Moore, he has worked as an economist at both the conservative Heritage Foundation and the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. He has also served as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal and occasionally contributes to these pages.

It’s rich to hear people like Paul Krugman and Jonathan Chait calling people unqualified hacks.