Politico Killed the Post?

Ross Douthat says Politico did in the Washington Post and forced its sale to Jeff Bezo last week.

“I say this as someone who doesn’t particularly like the Politico style or the role it plays in our gilded capital, and who misses The Post as it was when I arrived in Washington. But nostalgia is for columnists, not publishers: Politico has claimed a big part of the audience that The Post needed in order to thrive in the world the Internet has made.”