Jen Psaki, press secretary under Biden

JEN PSAKI, press secretary in the Biden administration, is part of an historic first — all of the people on the White House press team this year are women. They include “6 Moms of young kids.”

Psaki, 42, has two children, ages 5 and 2 — or as she calls them on her Twitter account “humans.” (Is it “bigoted” to call children “children?” Hmm, I guess it does kind of imply they’re helpless.)

Most reporters from major news outlets are political activists and propagandists, not journalists in the traditional sense, so Psaki’s job should be less difficult than that of her predecessor, Kayleigh McEnany, who was smart, combative and looked like a contestant in a Trump beauty pageant. The fact that Psaki takes every opportunity to imply that the previous administration was filled with liars and idiots should make her much more popular among the activists and propagandists.

Despite their differences in politics and style, these two women strike me as similar. Highly intelligent, quick, clever, physically attractive, brusque, extremely competitive. Years of grueling workaholism and compulsive rule-following lie just below the surface. You can hear it in the choice of words, peppered with catchphrases, and you can see it in the eyes.

Psaki, shortly after she began her new job, said she wants to show she isn’t a “pushover.” A man would never say he wants to prove he is not a “pushover.” If he said that he would only prove he is a pushover. But a woman in power exaggerates her toughness.

Serving as the immediate mouthpiece of the president (or, in this case, non-president) is a position of importance and authority. That there are women doing this must mean women are much are more powerful than they were in the age when they never got beyond First Lady, right?

The truth is, figures like Psaki and McEnany show that women have become far less influential. Their power has been diluted and drained.

It’s a brutally hard job and takes special talents, but many people could do the job of White House press secretary. No mother is indispensable to the press room. She is indispensable at home.

What occurs in one home is more important to the people in it than what occurs in White House press rooms. What occurs collectively in all homes is more important than anything that happens in the White House, even a declaration of war, because home molds character and that’s the foundation of national well-being.

It is not possible to be an attentive mother and a White House press secretary, no matter how rich a press secretary may be, how many people she hires to help, how maternal her husband is, how much she sincerely loves her children or how successful the children ultimately become — and I am very sure Psaki loves her children.

Jen Psaki, by filling her current position, has announced to the world that it’s okay to be a negligent mother.

To be fair, she has been taught to be this way. I am not attacking her personally, only the model she represents. But through example, she is adding to the casualties of feminism, which has caused untold physical, spiritual, mental, moral and demographic harm.

Psaki has said that motherhood has been transformative for her. It has made her appreciate her career more:

When I had my daughter, I’d been chugging along in my career and had great mentors and success, but it was the first time it hit me that I really loved working and having that professional outlet. It’s a choice I’m making. That’s something I’m mindful of too.

Can you imagine her daughter reading this? Psaki explains about “work/life balance:”

You have these little people who are going to be more important than anything you’re doing professionally. Also, there are few people as efficient as working mothers. I try to preserve the time before my first call in the morning to exercise, and if my kids are up early, I spend time with them. It may be 15 minutes of playing cards or having a dance party. But balance is not even the right word. It’s madness at most times; two months ago, I was finishing up a press release about some White House senior staff while my children were naked and getting out of the bath. You have to super-focus in the moment because there’s no other choice.

Good grief, haven’t these banalities about efficiency and balance run their course? When will this kind of lying be out of style?

If McEnany, who has one child, and Psaki stayed home and ignored their children all day they would be better mothers. Bad mothers are still loved by their children and always accomplish some good. More importantly, absent, publicly prominent mothers serve as bad examples to others (as I said in connection with Amy Coney Barrett.)

The home provides mothers with vast moral opportunities that the most sought-after jobs, even the job of Supreme Court justice, never provide. It’s sad, but women grow more “powerful” the less powerful they become.

Feminism is like a magic spell. You pronounce it over a woman and she becomes both a woman and a man. She transcends nature. This magic is deeply intoxicating. That’s why mothers in positions of power can be filled with superhuman energy. They call it “liberating.” But it’s just an occult magic trick. Reality hasn’t changed at all.

— Comments —

Frank writes:

I enjoyed your article about Psaki.  I am wondering, when do these efficient working mothers find time to pray?  Do they know what an interior life is?

Laura writes:

Thanks.

Unfortunately, they are taught to believe presidents are more important than God. It’s not their fault that they are miseducated. No, I don’t think they have an interior life. That’s why they seem programmed.

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