Slate is on a roll "The Family Man. Jared Kushner has never failed to choose blood over ideals.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/04/jared_kushner_has_never_failed_to_choose_blood_over_ideals.html

by Katy Waldman

In 1924, Marianne Moore wrote a multistanza poem about Jared Kushner. Called “An Octopus,” its ostensible subject was a cephalopod-shaped glacier on Mount Rainer, “deceptively reserved,” “polite,” with a “ghostly pallor,” its arms “as with meditated stealth … seeming to approach from all directions.” The ice looks clean, pretty, and delicate. It is fringed by fir trees that remind Moore of “our American royal families.” The poem’s most famous catchphrase—coming just before an ominous avalanche in the final line—is a double exclamation: “Neatness of finish! Neatness of finish!”



Kushner knows from immaculate polish, and his tentacles are stretching further by the day. Donald Trump’s 36-year-old son-in-law has now been tasked with bringing peace to the Middle East, destroying ISIS, reshaping the federal government, halting the opioid epidemic, and wooing China to our side. This would be an ambitious set of action items for a century’s worth of competent presidential administrations. Trump has handed the to-do list to a boyish cipher whose dad paid millions for him to get into Harvard.

It shouldn’t be surprising that POTUS has presented his senior adviser with such an expansive portfolio. Chip away the glassy surface and no one in Trump’s orbit is more Trumplike. Charles Kushner’s son and Donald Trump’s daughter’s husband stands firm in his allegiances yet dons (and sheds) his beliefs like dinner jackets. As Andrew Rice noted in New York, Jared Kushner has never failed to choose blood over ideals.

The child of privilege turned young adult of privilege doesn’t cut an immediately impressive figure. A recent photo of Kushner meeting with U.S. military officers in Iraq prompted Deadspin to “imagine how long Scent of a Woman here stared at himself in the mirror with his Malibu cop sunglasses on.”


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