While speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway stated, “This White House and the media are going to share joint custody of this nation for eight years, and we ought to be able to figure out how to co-parent.”
Lest Americans think this is a slip of the tongue, Conway has used this exact metaphor before. In late November, she stated, “President Trump and the media have to share joint custody of the nation and its people for the next four or eight years so it’s highly productive and in everyone’s interest to find a way to do that.”
No, Ms. Conway. That’s utter tripe.
The president and the press are not our parents. That sort of thinking is utterly foreign to conservatism and the Constitution. The president is an elected public servant with particular duties under the Constitution. None of those duties involve parenting us. And the press certainly are not our parents – they don’t get to determine how we consume information or act as arbiters of good and evil, as polls readily show. Their freedom is designed to prevent government overreach, not to facilitate it. As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to John Jay, “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”
But in spite of traditional American notions of delegated powers and the media’s role in keeping government in check, a broad swath of both major parties now embrace the “Daddy Government” notion. Chris Rock infamously called President Obama the “dad of the country” in 2013, to the outrage of conservatives; today, Milo Yiannopoulos calls Trump “Daddy” to their cheers. And Kellyanne Conway, an actual representative of the president, says it’s Trump’s job to parent us, along with his helpers in the media.
If Trump is your daddy, no wonder you believe he bears responsibility for your health care, your job, and your industry. Never mind the fact that Trump isn’t trashing the Trans-Pacific Partnership because it has secret Obama clauses or because it hasn’t run the rigors of a Senate vote – he’s trashing it because he wants to pander to his favorite children by indirectly taxing those he doesn’t care about as much. Never mind that Crazy Socialist Uncle Bernie Sanders thinks Trump just did something wonderful in destroying TPP wholesale. Never mind that China’s government must be orgasmic over the prospect of beginning a regional trade bloc and watching the United States lock itself out.
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The great danger of Trumpism was never Trump himself. It was always that conservatives would bowl over their philosophy in favor of a big government, European-style far right philosophy dedicated to big spending, subsidies, economic protectionism, and isolationism. So far, that process seems to be proceeding apace.
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Kellyanne Conway: "White House & media are going to share joint custody of this nation for 8 years. We ought to figure out how to co-parent"
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 24, 2017
I have my Heavenly Father, ABBA…and no, Trump is not my daddy now. Nor was Obama. No matter how much power they think they have it can all be recalled in seconds by our Creator. Conway, touted as a really wonderful person and great pick by Trump to be a spokesperson during and after the campaign, continues to soil herself by this nonsense. She has stood behind lies, called Cruz names, and all kinds of things after Cruz dropped out, just to gain a high place in Trump’s entourage. She is becoming a scheming low-life. Some real honesty is much needed, but with Bannon behind the scenes, I doubt will ever come to pass in this administration. Trump has made about 3 really good cabinet choices and a couple others (Niki Haley for UN Amb.), although I think Cruz would’ve been a MUCH better AG than Sessions who honestly has a MUCH lower conservative rating than Cruz and is softening on the things he was known to be strong on previously. He’s shown how malleable he can be. What a lot of rot! I am not going to pass judgment on Trump yet, but I am in the “wait and see” camp. It’s too early to tell.
One indicator will be how dedicated he is to picking the best SC nominees AND standing to defend their nomination through the proceedings. Reagan dropped the ball with Bork, or we would’ve had a much stronger court today. He did not stand behind his pick and demand a fair hearing, but let it get to the point that Bork removed his own name. We got Sandra Day O’Connor instead and what a terrible choice that was!
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
Uh, Reagan did stand behind Bork. Bork’s nomination was voted down 58-42 on Oct. 23, 1987. Reagan then nominated Anthony Kennedy, who was confirmed 97-0;
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