My Dad Wanted A Melania Wife And An Ivanka Daughter
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7 min readSep 15, 2016
One of the many absurdities of the Trump campaign is Ivanka Trump’s proud support of her misogynist father. She defends and advises him even as he fires a near-constant stream of sexist insults at Hillary Clinton, not to mention Megyn Kelly and a laundry list of other women. Maintaining that cognitive dissonance can’t be easy, but it’s also not unique: Many American men want to “marry Melanias and…