It was a Jeffrey Goldberg double feature on PBS over the weekend, as the Atlantic editor in chief and host of the Friday night political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic guided his six journalist guests (three of them affiliated with The Atlantic) through an America’s 250th-anniversary themed discussion, in front of the unusual setting of studio audience. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg: Steve [Hayes], jumping off something that Susan said, I've used this before on this show and elsewhere, but it the question that plagues me is this. Are we experiencing, in America, at 250 -- is this a head cold, a nervous breakdown, a midlife crisis, or a terminal illness? Ashley Parker, Goldberg’s colleague at The Atlantic, extended the psychiatric metaphor. Trump induced PTSD, and Biden was a return to normalcy:  Ashley Parker, The Atlantic: I think after Trump's first term, when then Biden won, there was a sense from our allies around the world that “Trump One” was sort of like a fever dream that they could PTSD-blackout, right? And we could go back to being the flawed, complicated, but like America that they had known for almost 250 years. And Biden reinforced that, right? Besides guiding the Trump-fear and loathing, Goldberg also provided it himself in a taped interview with PBS host (and yet another employee of Goldberg’s Atlantic empire) Evan Smith, who hosts the Austin-based talk show Overheard with Evan Smith. Parker usually takes a light-hearted attitude toward his disparate group of guests, but not this week. First, Goldberg propped up both Washington Week and The Atlantic itself, bragging that “Our goal on the show, our goal in the magazine, the goal of any quality journalism operation these days should be to put as much truth into the universe as possible.” Atlantic editor Goldberg on Trump: "If this were a different period, this would be a president saying....'I'm gonna break into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist's office and steal his medical records'...I don't understand the enthusiastic, almost lip-smacking embrace of indecency." pic.twitter.com/w1lronwDzD — Clay Waters