EN, here is the link to the original NYT column:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016

I surmise that this screed was written while Paul K. was in something of a state of shock, like many people at the time (including myself, to a degree ...)

One interesting riff, the Good Doctor states that "...  especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the great financial crisis ..."   Read one way, that is rather dismissive of any of Mr. Obama's putative economic accomplishments.  (I was surprised to see it, coming from Krugman!)  :-/