COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Donald Trump behaving
like a dictator by leaving underqualified socialite daughter to fill in for him
at G20
Ivanka, no matter what talents she may possess, is a
poorly-informed person who pushes herself into areas where she has no
understanding, and, of course, she is only able to do so because of her
abrasive, pushy father’s patronage. Any native talent she may indeed have is
not discernable in what we have seen from her so far.
No thoughtful person respects that.
Ivanka actually should understand enough herself, in just a
general social and political way, not to do some of the things she has done,
but she clearly does not, and clearly neither does her father in putting her
forward repeatedly.
The Ivanka phenomenon is almost a direct barometer of the
general decline of public respect for expertise and of the ignorant clamor for
spokespeople to offer opinions on issues regardless of how little they know. It
might almost be called a CNN or official Washington spokesperson phenomenon,
both institutions being examples of sheer ignorance regularly heard. Nikki
Haley, for example, a high-level appointee and career politician, possesses
this quality of pushy, insistent ignorance in spades.
