Bezos veers towards freedom

As a huge supporter of free markets and personal liberties, I welcome this. Personally I would still allow contrary views on these issues (but Bezos owns it so he decides) but it is great to have the Washington Post state they will defend those two pillars of freedom.

Some think that this is Bezos taking the knee before Trump, but I think they are wrong.

I think this actually positions the Washington Post to be critical of Trump – but from a centre-right perspective. Trump is no supporter of free markets – he wants to put tariffs on anything that moves. And Trump is probably the largest threat to personal liberties today (his administration is now banning law firms from any government work, if they take on a client Trump doesn’t like), so the WP stance is unlikely to be cheerleading Trump on.