Don’t let derangement syndrome throw shade on Anthony Albanese’s global wins as steady approach pays off

As a one-time foreign correspondent — in this case, a lifetime ago during the first Trump administration — some things become clear quickly. Not everything Donald Trump says or does comes to pass. And sometimes what’s happening on the surface is the opposite of what’s happening behind the veil. The second thing you learn is the value of decoupling from extreme perspectives and judgements about the man. Sometimes unhinged and many times downright wrong, such rantings have been jokingly pathologised as Trump Derangement Syndrome. In 2018, prominent US liberal and CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria categorised it as “hatred of President…