Article 5B8TE It’s time for Ivanka Trump to step out of her Dad’s shadow. But how? | Hadley Freeman

It’s time for Ivanka Trump to step out of her Dad’s shadow. But how? | Hadley Freeman

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Hadley Freeman
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Everyone wants to know what she'll do next. I've got a few ideas...

For much of this dumpster fire of a year I've been self-medicating with Schitt's Creek, the completely delightful sitcom about a wealthy family who, after losing all their money, learn to be good. But as the US election approached, I no longer wanted to watch a show about rich people who end up happy. I wanted to watch one about rich people being humiliated and regularly slung in prison. And so I've been rewatching Arrested Development.

The extraordinary similarities between the Bluth family (dodgy property dealer father, pathetic idiot older son desperate for his father's love, blond idiot daughter, even more idiotic younger son) and the Trump family (see above) rendered the show nearly unwatchable during the presidency. Now that Trump is definitely leaving office, it feels close to cathartic. But there was one thing Arrested got wrong in its prophesying of the Trumps: it underestimated the daughter.

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