First, let me toss in another big claim about her. She was advocating for Trump to keep the global warming mandates. She was charged with inviting Al Gore in to lobby the president (with a group of others I believe). This was just terrible from all descriptions. She was for certain going to turn Trump around on the subject.
Here are some articles on the subject. I'm sure the threads fleshed out the folks who were very worried about this. LINK
So yes, Ivanka met with Gore and then Gore met with Trump. Gore described the meetings as productive. I remember some of the frantic displeasure concerning this. Ivanaka had single-handedly turned her dad around on the subject.
Days later Trump announced he was withdrawing the federal government from funding any global warming programs.
Here are the reports of that and similar subjects: LINK
Did Ivanka sway Trump? No Did Al Gore turn Trump around? No This is typical of the hype and reality on other subjects Ivanka is deemed too Left on.
Let's look at the Planned Parenthood issue. Ivanka has been charged with being a very strong proponent of funding Planned Parenthood. Many folks here were sure she was going to stop the president from defunding the agency. Did she? No
Here are articles that cover the resolution of that topic: LINK LINK
Also raised is the issue of Affordable Day Care. The charge was that Ivanka was going to get the president to offer up tax deductions for child care costs (at least in part).
This has not been resolved yet. It's my take that it will be resolved when tax reform is addressed.
What do we know about the middle class? I would offer up these concerns:
1. The middle class has taken a massive hit over the last sixteen to 27 years
2. Of the approximate 90 million people out of work, many of them are middle class people who have been displaced over the last 25 years.
3. The wages and standard of living for the middle class has remained static for those working, and has been devastated for those who lost their jobs and now make 25 to 50% of what they were making. Others are just not working at all
4. what do these types of pressures cause?
..a. They cause stress on families
..b. They lead to broken homes
..c. They lead to kids scared for life who will not experience a healthy home, and probably won't have one themselves because of it
..d. They lead to people not opting to have children
Do we see evidences of these things? Yes We see them throughout our society. We're seeing the mortality rate for older White men spike.
We're also seeing a very paltry birth rate for middle income people. While minorities and people on welfare are banging out kids into already large families, we see the middle class dying off.
I would submit that we need to help the middle class more than any other. Others have been looked out for, while the middle class has been left to languish.
How do we influence the middle class the best? We get them back to work. We also do it with tax cuts. And > IMO, to influence our middle class folks to have more children, we do support a tax deduction for child care.
I want to see the middle class birth rate explode. That is the only salvation of our nation.
So while it may look like a great big Leftist idea to some, to me it looks like a targeted tax cut to exactly the segments of our society we need to support the most. It helps young married families be productive and solvent.
We want tax cuts, and sometimes we aren't going to like exactly how they are targeted. In almost every instance, I want to see tax cuts across the board with no favoritism.
In this instance, I think we need to face the fact that we need a Manhattan type project to increase the middle class birth rate, and the lifestyle of the middle class.
So on this "Leftist" idea if that's what you want to reference it as, I say go for it.
IMO < this is every bit as strategic as rebuilding our military. Our nation isn't strong without it's military. Our nation isn't strong with a strong middle class that is growing by leaps and bounds.
We need to promote larger middle class families, now.
If we don't, the other sectors will overtake it, and this nation cannot survive that.
The first two happened, the third one may have been attempted, but didn’t happen.