Trump (Second-Term) Derangement Syndrome was on display in a very special issue of The Atlantic monthly magazine, dated January/February 2024 (see “The Atlantic Melts Down at a Second Trump Term”), and the PBS-aired interview show Amanpour & Co. was on top of it, hosting Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Atlantic had tilted to the left under Goldberg, who also hosted the newly christened Washington Week with The Atlantic, the ostensibly balanced weekly political chat that aired on PBS.
She really bore down in her introduction to liberal journalist Walter Isaacson’s interview with liberal journalist Goldberg, on this tax-supported replay of a CNN International show.
“Now, talking of democracy, the United States has a hard time being that standard bearer,” she chided, “as Donald Trump is doubling down on his vision of being a dictator.”
(New York Times columnist and…
