HATING IVANKA – AT 10:41 A.M. ET:  Even seasoned observers are stunned by the sheer hatred directed at first daughter Ivanka Trump.  Normally, at least in recent times, children of presidents have been off-limits, except for some light chiding of Ron Reagan Jr's ballet background.  But Ivanka is a major target.  Why?  Marc Giller has an insightful view at Erick Erickson's site, The Resurgent:   

By all accounts, she’s been a lifelong Democrat, and spent a lot of time on the campaign trail talking about child care, equal pay for women and other issues that the feminist left purports to care about. She has been a businesswoman and an entrepreneur, a person who would otherwise be held up as a feminist icon. So what’s with the boycotts of Ivanka’s clothing line, or the nasty responses to a cute Instagram picture of her taking a phone call at the White House while holding her cute-as-a-button baby boy? Sure, the left hates Donald Trump–but why should Ivanka be held responsible for her father’s actions?

A lot of conservative publications have held this up as yet another example of feminist hypocrisy–and while this is true, it’s important not to treat the hypocrisy as incidental. Like Teddy Kennedy’s attack on Robert Bork, the Ivanka hate is being cultivated very carefully by activists who are attempting to block her father at every turn. The line of thinking is really quite simple: Ivanka is beautiful, personable, and aligns with feminists on a lot of issues–and that makes her a threat. If people who are left-of-center were allowed to like her, they might dislike her father less. After all, if he raised a daughter like Ivanka, he couldn’t be all bad, could he?

The hardcore left can’t have that, obviously, because the abject hate is the one thing that keeps the whole house of cards from tumbling down. If wounding Ivanka–or her husband, or even her kids–keeps it propped up, the left is fully prepared to do just that. That’s why arguments about hypocrisy won’t change a thing: these people know full well they’re hypocrites, they just don’t care. To them, politics is war. And in war, there are casualties.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's well worth it, and describes how this style of hate goes back to Ted Kennedy's destruction of Robert Bork, a federal appeals court judge nominated by President Reagan to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.  Kennedy's assault was so vicious that the phrase "to Bork" entered the vocabulary, as in "We're gonna Bork him."     

I'm afraid we'll see more.  The left is relentless, and is never satisfied.  You cannot appease leftists.  They are on a religious crusade, and conquer they must.

February 14, 2017