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Trump shows the cost of pettiness among the powerful

Donald Trump’s vendetta against wind turbines is not unusual among plutocrats and tech lords who believe they should have more say.

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Donald Trump isn’t exactly Don Quixote, but he does have a thing against windmills.

Indeed, Trump’s animus towards wind power is one of the strangest obsessions of a man with many unusual preoccupations (toilets! hair spray!). Over the years, he has asserted, falsely, that wind turbines can cause cancer, that they can cause power outages and that wind energy “kills all the birds” (cats and windows do far more harm).

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Paul Krugman is a New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winner.

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