pjmedia.com By Stephen Green
“I love policy and impact. I hate politics. And unfortunately, the two are not separable,” Ivanka Trump said on Skinny Confidential’s “Him & Her Show” podcast this week. Trump’s eldest daughter served during his first administration, originally as an unofficial advisor. Ivanka soon took an official — but unpaid — position as an assistant to the president, working to help pass the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and representing the country (and her father) at international events like the World Economic Forum in Davos.
But no more.
“To some degree, I’m at the center of the storm because my father is about to be president,” she told Skinny Confidential on Tuesday, “but it’s a very dark, negative business. And some people love the gladiator aspect of it — the fight. That was never me.”
Thank goodness her dad does, right?
“I think I’m most looking forward to just being able to show up for him as a daughter and be there for him to take his mind off things, to watch a movie with him, or watch a sports game,” but she won’t be talking shop or pushing Trump 47 legislation on Capitol Hill.
Let’s put policy aside for a moment because Ivanka is not exactly a conservative, but I wish we had more people like her. This nation’s institutions and civic health would be in much better shape if we only had two things:
- More public figures who hate politics and don’t want to serve.
- The power to draft them into public service.
I’m not even half kidding.
Robert Heinlein wrote about this problem in his 1959 novel “Starship Troopers.” Only those who had served in the military or performed some other kind of dangerous public works service were eligible for full citizenship, the franchise, or public office. For that, Heinlein was called a fascist. Because of course, he was.
But the idea that public service ought to be limited to those who have first given something to the public is an intriguing one — even if only because it would have disqualified a power-hungry draft dodger like Bill Clinton before he even got started…
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