Golden Quisling of the Week

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🏆 Golden Quisling of the Week: The Washington Post

Awarded for: Normalizing Authoritarian Flattery as Political Theater

This week’s Golden Quisling—our highest dishonor for media complicity in the face of rising fascism—goes to none other than The Washington Post, once a self-styled bulwark of democracy, now just another gilded doormat.

In its coverage of Trump’s 197-minute North Korea cosplay—a Cabinet meeting turned public worship session—the Post delivered a piece titled “In 3-hour televised Cabinet meeting, Trump soaks up flattery.” Sounds neutral, right?

That’s the problem.

What followed was a bland, clinical account of a scene that deserved sirens. Cabinet members unveiled banners of Dear Leader’s face. They suggested he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. They thanked him for saving college football and rescuing wildlife. It was fascist theater—scripted, sycophantic, surreal.

And The Washington Post?

They described it.

Not condemned it.

Not contextualized it.

Just… described it.

> “A dramatic display of loyalty and praise,” they wrote—like it was some halftime show.

Not a grotesque echo of regimes this country used to fight wars to stop.

No op-ed box.

No “democracy dies in daylight” moment.

Just a limp autopsy of political dignity as the body was still twitching.

This isn’t journalism.

This is collaboration by passivity.

This is the sound of a paper printing history in real time and deciding to whisper.

So congratulations, Washington Post. For helping the public treat fascist loyalty tests like “just another Tuesday,” you’ve earned yourself a place in the Hall of Shame.

Enjoy your Golden Quisling.

You earned it.

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