Although the rest of the country the would likely find it hard to care less, Bezos’ decision that the Washington Post (a paper he owns) would not endorse a candidate for president has thrust the minions of the political class in the DC area into fits of apoplexy. Of course these minions who stand by their credo “Democracy Dies in Darkness” only when it suits their predilections assumed this endorsement would have safely gone to Harris.

I don’t share the view, as some have speculated, that Bezos’ decision to withhold a Harris endorsement - a decision he must have known would result in epic tantrums in the coddled spaces of the WaPo newsroom - amounts to an endorsement of Trump. Rather, I think it’s a recognition of the farce the DC political class has engaged in over the last nearly 4 years over who is actually running the country. Or maybe one of the richest and most successful men in the world just wasn’t up for bending to the whims of a cadre that exists and continues to be paid only by his good graces.