Krugman wrote earlier today, “there has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009,” which is odd because I don’t recall Tea Partiers needing to pick the lock on police handcuffs.

An instructor demonstrates how to pick the lock on handcuffs using a bobby pin at the Occupy Wall Street occupation of Zuccotti Park, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)