[Jtsummers]

It was initially flagged when first submitted getting it relegated to the pages 3 and 4. Then it seems the flags got removed (or it got enough upvotes?) so it was on the front page for a few hours. Now it's on the second page (probably a combination of flags, if still enabled, and flamewar detection). It's #3 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/active

[emeril]

ah - i usually view using https://hckrnews.com/

it seems for whatever reason the above viewer omits it

[nkurz]

I don't think that's quite right.

I think some combination of having "Trump" in the title and theatlantic.com as the host and possibly something specific to the submitter penalized it so that it never hit the front page. Since hckrnews.com only shows articles that hit the front, it's not on there.

I'm only guessing, but see the graph here: https://hnrankings.info/43462783/. It doesn't show the clear drop that you'd expect with flags or flamewar, and doesn't appear to ever crack #59. If anything, it looks like it rose sharply when penalties were removed.