The Post eventually seeded the “Bush lied and people died” narrative as it moved further and further away from journalism, culminating in complete toadying during the Obama years. Sensing there was profit in Trump sabotage, the paper adopted an aggressive anti-Trump editorial mission during President Donald Trump’s first term, resorting to the ironic slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness”—pretty ballsy for a paper that carried on the Russiagate hoax, buried the Hunter Biden laptop story and conspired to cover up Biden’s dementia.

Paid subscriptions surged for the paper during the post 2016 election freakout, but when President Joe Biden took over and the January 6 riot was assumed to have banished the Evil Orange Man, dedication to the #2 “resistance” paper eroded rapidly. Reader interest plummeted from a high of 110 million unique monthly users in January 2021 to 62 million in January 2026.

Awww. Couldn’t happen to a nicer paper.

This week’s purge ends sports reporting, the books section, much of the foreign coverage and more. Stein’s statement to the contrary, the Post’s demise is substantially the fault of the unethical journalists the Post accumulated and pandered to. Far from upholding “the truest and most noble callings” of journalism, they were openly biased and smug about it.

Imagine: the staff threw a tantrum because Bezos decided that the Post should not endorse Kamala Harris, a fraud, an incompetent, a DEI product of an undemocratic nomination and a co-conspirator in hiding the fact that unelected operatives were running the Presidency while the official occupant slid into senility.

The Washington Post had, in Trump’s most perceptive description, become an enemy of the people and a travesty of journalism. Let us hope that the journalism profession learns the right lessons from its demise.