Of course, some will object that Ivanka is far too liberal to be America’s Marine Le Pen. Indeed, her speech at the Republican National Convention in July could have been delivered at the Democrats’ convention in any other election year to rousing applause. She repeated the canard about unequal pay for women and trotted out the old liberal notion that government should make “quality childcare affordable and accessible for all”—which sounds nice until you recall that Democrats said the same thing about health care when they were trying to convince us of the wisdom of Obamacare. Even the Washington Post noticed the disconnect between the substance of her speech and the GOP crowd that ate it up.

To be sure, Ivanka isn’t what you would call conservative. But of course neither is her father. And although she might seem more liberal than he is on some policy issues, there’s no reason to believe he has any more of an aversion to big government welfare programs than she does, or even Hillary Clinton. If he does, he hasn’t said so yet. In fact, he’s promised not to reform the biggest welfare schemes of them all: Medicare and Social Security.

Trump has evinced such little knowledge of or interest in actual policy, the criticism that Ivanka would be more liberal, more like a Democrat from the 1990s, just as equally applies to him.

At this point in the election cycle, it’s clear that Ivanka is far more likeable than her father. She’s also smarter, and has political skills that he lacks. She’s been intimately involved in his campaign since the beginning, and maybe, just maybe, when the smoke clears on November 9, she’ll realize that, like Marine Le Pen, she could do this politics thing a lot better than her belligerent dad.