I'm not sure how much or a corporatist the WSJ has been in the past. When DJT opened my eyes, I began to look at these newspapers quite differently.
I regularly visit the library and I agree that many of the editorial are foolish and are definitely against conservative principles.
And I think the progressives, Wall Street financiers, and Silicon Valley globalists have infected all the major business publications: Fortune, WSJ, and Forbes.
Never mind the British publications like the Economist and Financial Times -- they are downright communist at this point.
So I agree with your perspective.
And I've notice something else. So much of the business press in the US is intent on taking down American free enterprise system rather than build it up. Not enough emphasis is on nurturing it.
They - the major corporate U.S. business community - have lost the principles of how the government should operate to keep their own world in favor of true “free enterprise” market capitalism and not government captured de facto public utilities. Their crony capitalist lobbying meets with and joins the Marxist/Socialist/Progressive/Liberal lobbying and collectively works NOT at putting proper constitutional handcuffs on the regulatory state, but only how to give the Marxists what they want, to expand it forever, as long as they can keep their incomes and jobs, for now.
The “Democrats” then run their politics on the theme that the “corporations are controlling Washington D.C.”, with plenty of corporate lobbying $$$ to make that case, while the actual results are NOT that the corporations have “captured” the regulatory state, but that it is eating their general independence, and slowly everyone’s Liberty with it.
By the time all the major corporations are actual public utilities, their executives that led them to it and consented to it will have retired on the fat benefits that they wouldn’t get if their shareholders really understood what was happening.