It looks like they’re just going to lobby trading partners to please direct (actual) retaliatory sanctions towards products from red states, not their state. In general, I like that idea. But maybe now any excemptions for blue state products should come with a promise to actually fight the incipient fascist government…

There’s two positives for her resigning:

• she can live on without hating herself
• she signals to the world that the Washington Post is not reputable anymore I’m not sure how she could have a more positive impact by staying, which you appear to imply she should have.

I knew it sounded familiar. It even has a name and a wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck’s_principle