TWO WASHINGTON POSTS IN ONE!
Shot: WashPo Attacks Christian Leaders as ‘Enemies of Equality.’
— Thomas D. Williams, Big Journalism, today.
— Pamela Constable, the Washington Post, Friday.
And note this:
In March 2013, Dad passed away at 96; my mother followed him at 97. I was relieved that they had not lived to see their party’s new standard-bearer hurling vulgar taunts and whipping up xenophobic crowds, or to witness the rout of the rational, civilized conservative norms that had defined their lives and guided public policy for a century.
Constable has worked for years for a newspaper whose employees wore buttons that said “Yeah, I’m With the Media. Screw You” to the 1992 Republican Convention and the following year described evangelical Christians as “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command,” before declaring (via its then sister publication) “We Are All Socialists Now” at the dawn of the Obama era — and then wonders how someone like Trump emerged from the media culture the Post spent decades setting on fire.
Sorry, you can’t serve as a spear carrier in the war to fundamentally transform American culture and then get to say, “What happened?! Why aren’t there any mild-mannered patrician Republicans left?”