Jeff Bezos Is Greasing America's Slide Toward Autocracy | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : After Trump won the 2016 election, the Post adopted the first slogan in the paper's 140-year history: Democracy Dies in Darkness.
53% : Meanwhile, on February 25, Trump announced that he would break decades of precedent and handpick the media outlets that would be allowed to participate in the presidential press pool -- the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president's day-to-day activities to the public.
48% : A few hours after Bezos's "no endorsement" decision became public, officials from his Blue Origin aerospace company, which has a multi-billion dollar contract with NASA, met with Trump.
45% : A few weeks later, another Bezos company -- Amazon -- paid $40 million to license a documentary about Melania Trump, who personally will receive $28 million.
40% : By its count, Trump had made more than 30,000 "false or misleading claims" during his first four-year term alone.
36% : But now titans who control mainstream media are pandering to Trump in ways that compromise their publications.
33% : Titans like Bezos who control mainstream media are pandering to Trump in ways that compromise their publications.
32% : A Dangerous Anti-Democratic Theme Bezos is not alone among the moguls who are helping Trump along the road to autocracy.
23% : Prior to the 2020 election, the Post's editorial page had characterized Trump as a threat to the American democratic experiment.
12% : Except, of course, in early February Trump banned the AP from the Oval Office and Mar-a-Lago because it continued referring to the "Gulf of Mexico" instead of Trump's new name for that body of water, the "Gulf of America."
7% : The editorial board described Trump as "the worst president of modern times" and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden to replace him.

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