Bezos, Trump, and the Failure of Democracy

Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan V Last

“On Friday, after the Washington Post’s publisher announced that the paper was suddenly abandoning the practice of the editorial page endorsing presidential candidates, news leaked that — on the very same day — Donald Trump met with executives from Blue Origin. Blue Origin, of course, is the rocket company owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post. This was neither a coincidence nor a case of Bezos and Trump being caught doing something they wished to keep hidden. The entire point of the exercise, at least for Trump, was that it be public. What we witnessed on Friday was not a case of censorship or a failure of the media. It had nothing to do with journalism or the Washington Post. It was something much, much more consequential. It was about oligarchy, the rule of law, and the failure of the democratic order.” (10/27/24)

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