1/6 Coming Monday in The Atlantic: @jeffreygoldberg sits down with Barack Obama for his most extensive interview since he left the presidency. Here’s an early look at their conversation:
2/6 On the state of our nation: “One of the really distressing things about the current situation is the amount of time that is being lost because of Donald Trump’s petulance and the unwillingness of other Republicans to call him on it.”
3/6 On democracy: “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work.”
4/6 On Donald Trump: “I’m not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life. He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist … I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”
5/6 On these United States: “America is the first real experiment in building a large multiethnic, multicultural democracy. And we don’t know yet if it can hold.”
6/6 Check back Monday for more from the former president’s most revealing interview in four years, including insights from his coming memoir, “A Promised Land.”
Read the full interview here: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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