Last September, during the now-fabled meeting at one of his Indian Creek Island homes on Biscayne Bay, Jeff Bezos informed Washington Post leadership of his desire to see the paper forgo its quadrennial tradition of presidential endorsements—a decision that would, as everyone knows, go off like a nuclear bomb over the paper. When the decision was finally announced more than a month later, in the final days before the election, Bezos was memorably pilloried by the D.C. media establishment for what appeared to be a callous and brazen capitulation to Trump. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of subscribers reportedly abandoned the paper.