Because the entire reason they "refused to endorse a candidate" was at the behest of Bezos because he's a greedy coward. The actual people working at the paper were quite clear and vocal about their support of one candidate. The downside to one candidate is that his playbook was literally bringing facism to America via "Project 2025". The downside to the other candidate was highlighted by being a black woman, and not being progressive enough I guess? That's not a difficult choice for anyone outside of the ruling class.

Washington posts tag line was “Democracy dies in darkness”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness

It might be still, I unsubscribed due to this nonsense. Went to the guardian.