Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.
~ Alexandra Petri, in the October 26 Washington Post, following the announcement that the newspaper's owner quashed the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris. Well worth tracking down the whole brilliant piece.
Many people have reacted by canceling their subscriptions. I see their point, of course, but that further hurts journalists & journalism ~ better to cancel Amazon Prime or your Whole Foods habit. Do the inconvenient rather than the performative thing.