The Washington Post used to be a news source.

They gave that up long ago, turning into a parody of one sometime back in the Pleistocene era.

Reading The Post or the New York Times about anything touching on politics could easily be replaced by a Mad Lib–you know, the game where a story is being told but the players are asked to provide verbs and nouns without any context. You get the most absurd and usually funny results.

Leftist MSM articles are like this. Insert “Racist,” “Republicans Pounce,” “debunked,” “No evidence,” and “Insurrection” and you can construct any story having to do with conservatives.

This morning we see another bright and shining example of a Post Mad Lib.

Former president Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis argue Trump would not get a fair trial in the “Swamp,” adding to a history intertwined with race and partisan politics. https://t.co/xyL0q98nhz

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 8, 2023

Did you know that Republican disdain for and suspicion of Washington D.C. is racist? After all, Washington D.C.

Washington D.C., after all, has a lot of Black people, and for a while was majority Black. Now it is about evenly split between Black and White residents, so having any disdain for the city is clearly racist.

It is a day ending in -y, so Republicans are being racist again.

Why Republicans have at least as much disdain for San Francisco and Portland, famously White cities is utterly unaccountable. It must be false consciousness or something.

Upon learning of former president Trump’s most recent indictment last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a novel take: “Americans,” he tweeted, should “have the right to remove cases from Washington, D.C.” On Fox News, he added, “It is unfair to have to stand trial before a jury that is reflective of the ‘swamp mentality.’”

Soon, Trump and his lawyers were in on the action, arguing on social media and Sunday shows that he could not receive a fair trial in the nation’s capital.

Thus opens a new chapter in the long saga of lawmakers treating residents of the District of Columbia as if they aren’t Americans — a history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.

“What I think [DeSantis is] doing in this instance is a very age-old trick of conflating the federal government with the people of D.C.,” George D. Musgrove, a historian and co-author of the book “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital,” said in an interview. “If ‘the Swamp’ is anything concrete … it’s this notion of federal policymakers, the federal bureaucracy, lobbyists, the people that run the federal government. Then there’s the actual 690,000 residents of the District of Columbia,” who are more likely to be middle and working class, like “teachers and bus drivers.”

This argument, of course, is in bad faith. “The Swamp” doesn’t refer to the population of Washington D.C., but to the federal government and the swamp creatures who run the city. It refers to the Leftists who have infected every aspect of the culture, and to the fact that it is by FAR the most Democrat voting bloc any of us have ever seen.

To give you just one example: Washington voters give Democrats 95% of the vote in local elections. 95%.

Is it any wonder that a Republican might think that getting a “jury of their peers” might be a tough sell there?

Washington was the epicenter of #theresistance, in which bureaucrats whose job it is to follow the law and the lawful directives of their boss–the President of the United States–declared their intention and followed through on it to simply ignore the duly elected leader of the country.

Everybody KNOWS that Washington DC is populated by people who hate Republicans because Republicans have been trying to pry the levers of power out of Washington’s hands.

The Washington Post sees racism. Because, apparently, they believe that bending the knee to tyranny is the only anti-racist position there can be.

The Founders excluded Washington D.C. from having too large a voice in national politics because they understood that the government itself–and the people who run it–can have interests that run counter to those of the population as a whole. Once people get a taste of power it becomes addictive, so they tried to limit the ability of the government to develop interests contrary to those of the nation.

It was a wise move, but unfortunately, the government has gotten so big that it no longer works well.

But disdain for power-hungry bureaucrats is as American as apple pie and has precisely nothing to do with race. Famously Blacks weren’t a massive political power when the Constitution was written.

Any fair-minded person knows that Donald Trump couldn’t possibly get a fair trial in Washington. He is HATED there. It is the very swamp he wants to drain. Not because Black people live there, but because the current tyrannical government persecuting him does.

Still, the MSM can’t help itself. Republicans must pounce, commit insurrections, and be racist. So they pound every square peg into every round hole they see.

What a joke.

Same damn ridiculous energy. pic.twitter.com/pqNS7gWc2I

— 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@HarmfulOpinion) August 8, 2023