US Democrats dive off deep end of identity politics as WikiLeaks heroine seeks high office, by The Australian.

Democrats reckon he’d make a good US senator.

Chelsea Manning … is running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. Manning, a 30-year-old transgender woman born as Bradley, filed candidacy paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Thursday …

Private First Class Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison … for transmitting government documents to the antisecrecy website ­WikiLeaks, and he received a dishonourable discharge. The trove of documents fell within four categories: videos, incident reports from the ­Afghanistan and Iraq wars, information on detainees at Guantanamo and thousands of State Department cables. …

Manning would face-off with incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms and is up for re-election in November. …

A vote for Chelsea Manning is a vote for a traitor. Security analyst David French in National Review, August 10 last year: “To be clear, this wasn’t whistleblowing. He (the formerly Bradley Manning) didn’t identify a specific wrong and expose it responsibly while taking care to minimise the harm of disclosure. He just disclosed documents without regard for their contents. He didn’t know if anyone would die because of his actions. He didn’t know to what extent vital missions or programs would be compromised. He just did what he wanted to do. There was no honour in his action. None.” …

The American Left just love her. The New York Post, yesterday: “She posed in a swimsuit for Vogue in August, shared her beauty secrets in an article for Yahoo!, penned columns about transgender rights and government transparency for The Guardian, and rode on an ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) float in the NYC Pride Parade in June.”

hat-tip Stephen Neil