Ivanka Trump's Quiet Complicity May Be 'Complicated' But It's Deadly For Women In America

The vast majority of Democrats and Independents have already had enough of Ivanka Trump. She's as ambitious as her father -- not that there's anything wrong with ambition in women. But the notion that she tempers her father in any way adds insult to injury for women watching her quietly render true harm to women in America and worldwide. 

WaPo takes a look at Ivanka's "complicated" world. One wonders if Ivanka Trump has actually ever stood up for women in a significant way. Has she actually told America's president about the millions of poor women worldwide who are condemned to death, over his reinstituting of the global gag rule, with new and onerous conditions more severe than under the Bush administration.  How about the poor women in America impacted by his desire to shut down Planned Parenthood?

American women -- and educated women worldwide -- worldwide would respect Ivanka Trump far more if she even signaled support for core women's issues around women's health. Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have no trouble standing for Planned Parenthood. Why can't Ivanka Trump defer to her father as president -- which she must -- yet offer support to the majority of American women at the same time. President Trump is working the will of only a limited portion of the American public.  If Ivanka wants to be taken seriously in her advisory role, she must find a way to quietly signal her lack of support for certain policies in the Trump administration.

At present, the First Daughter is nothing more than dad's great enabler, a prop at her father's side quietly endorsing his every action with her profound silence.