"Preschool Teacher, 22, Arrested on TV After Condemning Trump," blared a headline in The Daily Beast, above an article that noted cynically, "Welcome to America." The UK-based Guardian published an article framing her as a progressive "anti-war" activist. And Democracy Now, an anti-Trump platform, lamented, "Grand Rapids Police Arrest Protest Antiwar Organizer After She Condemns Trump."; Few outlets reported that Plichta is a dedicated revolutionary in the radical Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist-Leninist "organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States."
