Originally published at: The Most Pernicious Anticipatory Obedience Hides in Plain Sight - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In the waning days of the 2024 presidential campaign Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos became the target of widespread and deserved disgust for nixing The Washington Post’s policy of endorsing presidential candidates to avoid antagonizing Trump. As I wrote at the time, it’s not that there’s anything magical or even necessary about newspaper endorsements. The whole…