Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Hardly a wonder, isn’t it, that so many of its columnists left the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post in 2025 after he announced its change of editorial focus to “personal liberties and free markets“? A quick search includes among them Jonathan Capehart, David von Drehle, Perry Bacon Jr., Molly Roberts and David Hoffman (both on the editorial board), Philip Bump, Jennifer Rubin, and Eugene Robinson. Some accepted buyouts. Others just left.
The Bulwark last week announced that Catherine Rampell has joined their team. She left the Post in July after 11 years.
The Post’s remaining editorial board has relocated to Cloud Cuckoo Land, or else to a billionaire prepper bunker.
A clueless editorial the WaPo board published last week ahead of the election of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York City exhibited a humiliating lack of self-awareness.
Donald Trump won the Oval Office in 2016 with no prior elective office experience. Yet the Post expressed alarm that Zohran Mamdani, “a socialist with almost no governing experience” who was “born into a life of wealth and privilege” might win the New York City’s mayoral race. While Trump shakes the world’s economic system with his tariff fetish, the Post warned that Mamdani might bring to the office “a worldview centered around destroying the economic system that made his adopted country thrive.”
The board is back this morning with an editorial that might have originated in the right-wing echo chamber (emphasis mine):
A new era of class warfare has begun in New York, and no one is more excited than Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani. Witness the mayor-elect’s change of character since his Tuesday election victory.
Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech.
Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.
It goes on, but you get the point.
Tragedy or comedy?
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