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At that time, though, women were seen as guardians of civic morality. Whenever a man was tempted to sacrifice “justice and honor…to the advancement of personal interest,” preachers said, his wife should “whisper in [his] ear thoughts of holier and better things.” But “Georgia” would only have shared her disappointment about her husband’s defense of the president with God. And her husband likely would have dismissed her scruples — albeit without resenting them.
Add to these the public humiliation of being the subject of so much gossip and the ordeal their teenagers must be going through, and you would ordinarily have a recipe for a very unhappy family life. As psychologist Joshua Coleman points out, children tend to take an attack on a parent as an attack on themselves, and when one parent appears to attack the other, it is especially hard for them to process.
Still, it’s hard to apply the standards of ordinary relationships to the lives of today’s Washington D.C. elites. Many seem to be organizing their lives by the rules of reality TV, using every opportunity to audition for their next shot at wealth and fame. And everyone knows that in reality TV, conflict and controversy garner the highest ratings.
So is this all tongue-in-cheek, a tap dance that gives the family a foot in both camps and positions them to jump either way, depending on how Trump’s first term ends? After all, this couple seems to switch principles with considerable ease. George admits to
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