I am so sick of the self aggrandizement across the board that seems to have become especially prominent over the past couple of years. I am certain I am not the only one. A cartoon in the Washington Post is at best preaching to the choir. Not a single "powerful person or institution" in history has ever even once been "held accountable" by a Washington Post cartoon. So, so many people have such an inflated sense of the importance of what they do, like they're on some holy crusade. I am reminded of that scene at the beginning of Silicon Valley, "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place", and all the cringy Steve Jobs impersonators we've all seen over the years.
In my opinion these kinds of people are exactly the reason that the same people being "held accountable" in the cartoon have managed to come to power. Because they've been putting themselves out there as unlikable self-righteous snobs for the better part of the past decade or so and a whole lot of people got sick of them and put the idiots in charge out of spite.
Also...it's a very lame cartoon. It isn't remotely funny nor creative. It's bland, innocuous commentary on the level of Banksy. Though I guess that's pretty much the status quo for political cartoons these days.