The cover story in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine underlined a typical day in a Democrat newspaper. The cover promoted "The little-known group that trains women to run for office -- and win." It turns out the group, Emerge America, trains just Democratic women to win. Inside the magazine, the headline was "A POLITICIAN IS BORN: Trump's victory enraged Kate Ranta. So she took a class in running for office."
Freelancer Joanna Walters began the tale with Ranta "sobbing under her quilt" after Trump won.
Across the country, millions of voters were feeling similarly devastated, but for Ranta, there were personal reasons why Donald Trump’s victory felt like a sucker punch. At the time, she was bracing to testify in the Florida trial of her ex-husband, who was charged with two counts of attempted murder for shooting her and her father — in front of the couple’s 4-year-old son.
Then she shamelessly relayed how Ranta compared this abuser to the president in a session at the candidate school:
For her part, Ranta took a deep breath and described how her ex-husband had initially showered her with gifts and affection before stalking her and eventually turning up with his gun. “He was love-bombing me,” she said. “But he was really an abuser, a sociopath. I know gaslighting. I know the pattern, now.” She saw ugly parallels in Trump. “And I still have relatives who voted for him.” Some of the women were in tears as she told her story, especially the part where she described how her ex stood over her with a gun after she’d already taken bullets to the chest and hand, as their son cried out: “Daddy, don’t shoot Mommy.”
How is it fair to see "ugly parallels in Trump" here? It's one thing for the Post to highlight Trump accusers -- as it did on the front page Tuesday, with a woman named Rachel Crooks, who said Trump kissed her in a Trump Tower hallway in 2006. (That woman is running as a Democrat for state office in Ohio.) But to compare Trump to a gun-toting wife-shooter?
But Martin Baron, the editor of The Washington Post, is posing his newspaper as the guardian of "a baseline set of facts," and an "independent arbiter of what's true and false," as celebrated Tuesday by CNN host Brian Stelter:
In reality, a "politician wasn't born," at least not with Ranta. As the story explains, she was discouraged from running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, and the seat was won by another female Democrat, Kathy Tran.
Walters is more often a freelancer for the socialist British newspaper The Guardian, with a similar liberal spin, such as "When Neil Gorsuch put corporate interests over a man freezing to death."
Their motto ought not be "Democracy Dies In Darkness," but "Democrats Thrive In Our Lights."
