Via Matt Yglesias, Paul Krugman’s got that right: “Even now, it’s better for your reputation not to have noticed until, say, 2005 that we had some dangerous people running the country. If you noticed earlier “€” or, worse yet, you caught on to the administration’s essential mendacity right from the beginning “€” it’s not a sign that maybe you had good judgment. It shows that you were an irrational Bush hater.”