{"id":110916,"date":"2016-12-29T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110916"},"modified":"2016-12-29T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:43:44","slug":"jamie-kirchick-ivanka-trump-is-not-going-to-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110916","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Kirchick: &#8216;Ivanka Trump is not going to save us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kirchick has a knack for answering the questions most on my mind. I had always assumed that Ivanka Trump would save us. Now I know better. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-kirchick-ivanka-trump-mariela-castro-20161229-story.html\">Jamie writes<\/a>: &#8220;It\u2019s easy to be seduced by Ivanka \u2014 she really is smooth, not to mention beautiful \u2014 but keep your guard up: This is a trap. Ivanka is nothing more than pretty window dressing to the explicitly authoritarian, racially divisive, conflict-of-interest-laden presidential campaign (soon-to-be administration) of her father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, just wow. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mariela\u2019s purpose is not improving the livelihood of her LGBT countrymen so much as it\u2019s fooling credulous Western progressives into thinking that Cuba is anything other than a one-party state run by a mafia clan. Mariela Castro and Ivanka Trump are what happen when privileged entitlement meets political depravity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sad! Must apologize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kirchick has a knack for answering the questions most on my mind. I had always assumed that Ivanka Trump would save us. Now I know better. Jamie writes: &#8220;It\u2019s easy to be seduced by Ivanka \u2014 she really is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110918,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110916\/revisions\/110918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}