A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[Dark Jaguar]

Politico has never had a heavy conservative bent.  Listen, I understand your temptation to presume a conspiracy is going on, but we don't have reason to think that.  This isn't "benign", don't get me wrong.  It's horribly harmful, but it's easily explained by basic corporate greed influencing editorial decisions.  In fact, I've found that a lot of otherwise unexplainable corporate decisions make a lot more sense if you assume the people in charge are amoral and greedy.  It's cartoonish, like Captain Planet level stuff, but if the past 8 years have taught us ANYTHING, it's that Captain Planet villains exist in the really real world and we owe that cartoon an apology.  Sometimes, real people are one dimensional and real world world building sucks.

So in this case, when you have SO many people threatening en masse to stop buying this newspaper or stop watching that network, they make the corporate decision to hedge their bets towards some imagined middle ground to "do the least harm" to their bottom line.

That said, sometimes conspiracies actually happen.  The key is, I just need evidence of it, and saying "they're all acting weird" isn't evidence.