I’m pretty sure that Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic didn’t mean to suggest that Donald Trump is riding to the rescue, braving the swamps of the District of Columbia in order to drive out the alligators that populate the D.C. swamp.
But that is the message that MAGA folks got out of the magazine’s dark and brooding cover.
This looks to me like Trump’s coming to rescue us from the desolation and destruction created by the Swamp, and he’s dragging the rest of the “do nothing” Republicans with him. pic.twitter.com/HPZZuCuRC9
— Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 (@jellen805) September 9, 2024
The Atlantic, as I have often noted, is a frustrating magazine for me. Within its pages have been printed some truly excellent writing, but during the Trump era, its writers and editors have been remarkably deranged about anything Trump-related.
Never Trumpers remind me of the witch-burning scene in…
