The Washington Post — which marked the first Trump administration by adding the motto: “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to its masthead — had prepared an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. It’s owner, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, killed it, saying that the paper would not endorse any candidate, not now nor ever again.

Incandescent rage followed. Staff resigned. Some 200,000 readers cancelled their subscriptions. Writers writing about writers wrought their hands over what the Post’s writers were not writing.