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Bruce Bartlett and others send me to this eloquent David Frum piece, which concludes:

Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?

The knee-jerk response of commenters is “But the Obama stimulus failed, deficits, yada yada. Also, Krugman has a beard.” Or something like that. But let’s talk for a second about Frum’s proposition, focusing just on the past few years.

It’s kind of annoying when people claim that I said the stimulus would work; how much noisier could I have been in warning both that it was grossly inadequate, and that by claiming that a far-too-small stimulus was just right, Obama would discredit the whole idea?

(More here.)