Nader went on to attack Bezos for crushing labor unions and creating a dangerous monopoly that hurts consumers. Every point Nader made was fair. Some were indisputably true. Nobody cared. By 2017, liberals and Jeff Bezos were playing for the same team. Bezos was now the owner of the Washington Post, the most aggressively anti-Trump newspaper in the United States. To liberals, Bezos wasn’t a corporate villain. He was a role model. Slate, the online newsletter of well-educated young progressives in New York and Washington, published stories with headlines like “The Peculiar Genius of Jeff
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