Google is a corporation. But D.C. liberals reasoned that the tech giant wasn’t that kind of corporation. For the last eight years, they cheered as Google cozied up to the Obama family, to Democrats, and to policy wonks in an effort to “change the world from the bottom up.”

After that whirlwind romance, it comes as something of a shock to discover that the multibillion dollar, multinational, and multiplatform corporation had mixed motives all along.