Beltway media circles were stunned yesterday when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced the paper will undergo a “significant shift” in its opinion section, focusing more on the “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”

Gee a pro-free market editorial page inside the halls of Congress.

Who do they think they are? The Wall Street Journal?

The announcement meant the immediate resignation of the Post’s Opinion Editor David Shipley, an old-line liberal who wanted the paper to endorse Kamala Harris last year until Bezos blocked him.

“The old Washington Post is dead,” concluded David Maranniss, a former associate editor.

We hope he’s right.