The power of false victimization

The left embraces victim stories that are mostly fantasy.

Putting a human face on an abstract cause is a time-honored tactic. But it doesn’t work unless a receptive media spins the desired narrative.

A case in point was this past week’s media outburst over a 107-year-old Washington, D.C. woman’s difficulty in obtaining a photo ID. The Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News and others converted the situation into a photo op for “voter suppression.”

They acknowledged but brushed aside the glaring fact that the lady in question could easily...