Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal
Source: Washington Post
Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal
By Monica Hesse
Columnist
September 5 at 3:45 PM
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Still, it’s easy to see how in normal times, the public might let that slide. In normal times, under a normal president, we might let his daughter have her projects and initiatives.
That, I’d argue, is everyone’s essential problem with Ivanka, even if they haven’t quite put their finger on it: She behaves as if we are in normal times. She behaves as if she is working in a normal administration. And she behaves as if her role is benign diplomacy, rather than what her role should be — acknowledging and fighting against the madness.
The work she wants to do internationally on behalf of women is laudable, but there are dozens of scholars and economists who could do it as well or better; nobody needs Ivanka’s specific brain on these matters.
What she could do — what only she could do — is act as a public check on the president of the United States. She could offer an informed, clear-eyed perspective on her father’s behaviors and fitness for office. She could publicly express with a daughter’s love and concern that, yes, it is really worrisome that the president keeps falsely insisting that Alabama is going to be hit by Hurricane Dorian. She could say, “Here’s what he’s doing that scares me.” She could say, “Look, here’s everything I know. I love my dad, but here’s everything I know.”
Would she be fired? Probably. Disinherited? Maybe.
But that’s where her value is. That’s her diplomatic mission. The one thing she could be doing to be taken seriously is the one thing she’s not doing.
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