{"id":28077,"date":"2020-09-12T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28077"},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:09:44","slug":"the-atlantic-owners-and-editors-manifest-extremely-serious-case-of-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28077","title":{"rendered":"‘The Atlantic’ Owners and Editors Manifest Extremely Serious Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Derangement Syndrome at \u2018The Atlantic\u2019 Reaches a Fever Pitch<\/strong><\/h1>\n

BY STEPHEN KRUISER
\nPJ Media<\/p>\n

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Trump Derangement Syndrome at \u2018The Atlantic\u2019 Reaches a Fever Pitch<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n

The poor dears.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em> is a magazine that will be 163 years old two days before the presidential election this year and, lemme tell ya, it\u2019s not aging well right now.<\/p>\n

Unlike many venerable publications,\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0transitioned rather well to new media. There was always some very good stuff on the site, which helped offset the usual knee-jerk liberal fare.<\/p>\n

Those days appear to be gone.<\/p>\n

After its almost\u00a0universally debunked<\/a>\u00a0hit piece about Trump and the military last week, the site has taken extreme umbrage at the fact the President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Staff writer Graeme Wood wrote a lengthy piece calling for an end to the prize because of this.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Trolls are a Scandinavian invention, straight from the frigid sagas of Norse mythology, but Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a Norwegian parliamentarian, swears that he is not one. Observers of his antics this week could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. On Wednesday, he announced that he had nominated Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\u2019s got issues. As many with the man who nominated Trump for the UAE\/Israel agreement as with Trump himself, it would seem.<\/p>\n

Tybring-Gjedde is from Norway\u2019s Progress Party, a right-wing populist answer to the established parties of the right and left. (National parliamentarians are entitled to nominate candidates for the prize. So are professors, past laureates, and various other bigwigs from international organizations.) His nomination of Trump strikes me as preposterous. \u201cOther politicians don\u2019t pick up the phone to talk,\u201d Tybring-Gjedde said. \u201cHe has the ability to be down-to-earth and talk to people at all levels.\u201d Tybring-Gjedde notes that Alfred Nobel listed as one of the criteria for the winners that they encourage \u201cpeace congresses\u201d\u2014and what is a peace congress but a conversation between people who are not at peace? In\u00a0my view\u00a0the deal between the Emirates and Israel is good for the region, but a deal between Israel and the absolute monarchs of a small Gulf state is not a deal between Israel and the people of the Emirates, let alone between Israelis and Palestinians. Trump\u2019s main diplomatic maneuver is to adopt a lickspittle posture toward authoritarians, promising them decades in power in return for a smile and a condo development. Peace does not mean a web of personal agreements between rich psychopaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Wood seeks to delegitimize the nomination because he doesn\u2019t like the person doing the nominating, the person being nominated, or the reason for the nomination.<\/p>\n

Oops.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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As we like to say in the world of stand-up comedy, timing is everything.<\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s timing was awful here.<\/p>\n

He published his diaper-soiling ORANGE MAN BAD screed just hours before it was announced that President Trump had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for a second time this week, this time by a member of the Swedish Parliament, and for the Serbia\/Kosovo agreement he brokered.\u00a0I wrote about that here yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just like that, two of Wood\u2019s \u201cnuke the Nobel\u201d arguments unraveled. He probably spent most of the day curled up in the fetal position with juice boxes strewn all about the place after learning of the second nomination.<\/p>\n

The recent descent by\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0into Stage Five ORANGE MAN BAD dementia has been, as one friend of mine who used to be an\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>fan said, \u201cSad.\u201d I agree.\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0was one of the few publications that I could still respect, despite its obvious liberal bent.<\/p>\n

The place has turned into BuzzFeed overnight.<\/p>\n

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When that same friend wondered why\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0had gotten so bad so fast I replied, \u201cThe internal polling by the DNC must be awful right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This has been a very good week for President Trump, as evidenced by desperate hot takes like this one in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all on the same flight but I think they may be feeling a little more turbulence where they\u2019re sitting.<\/p>\n

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