Wikipedia explains what compartmentalization is in two simple sentences:
Compartmentalization is a subconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.
Compartmentalization allows these conflicting ideas to co-exist by inhibiting direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self states.
Emily Jane Fox is the author of “Born Trump” and of the recent Vanity Fair article “ONE WILL BE GUARANTEED TO TURN OUT LIKE ME”: HOW DONALD TRUMP FATHERED A LOYAL ARMY OF MINI-MES”
Excerpt about the plans for the Trump innaugartion.
Ivanka Trump seemed particularly attuned to the stagecraft. When Melania Trump opened the White House residence to all of her husband’s children for the weekend following the inauguration, the president’s elder daughter put in a request to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom. (Permission granted.) When Melania wavered over the idea of the customary parade down Pennsylvania Avenue after the swearing-in ceremony, citing security concerns, Ivanka dug in. “It’s happening,” she told an organizer. She worked with a stylist and told friends that she wanted a “princess moment.” “I told her it’s an inauguration, not a coronation,” one friend recalled. “The sentiment was that Americans wanted a royal family.”
Fox used the term compartmentalization to describe Ivanka Trump in an interview with Nicole Wallace:
Wallace asked a panel on “Deadline: White House” on Thursday about Melania’s and Ivanka Trump’s silence in the wake of the shocking comments and the president’s apparent support of them. “Are they just the most stoic human beings? Are they numb, are they dead inside, are they paid off? I mean, what’s their deal?” she wondered.
Vanity Fair reporter Emily Jane Fox responded: “Yes, yes and yes. But I think they do not see President Trump the way that all of us see President Trump. They have such a distorted image of who he is that they don’t have the kind of reaction that we do. It’s almost some sort of trick or spell he has on them.” She called first daughter Ivanka Trump the “most masterful compartmentalizer that America has maybe ever seen.”
Whether Favorite Daughter Ivanka Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, or other family members are unconsciously compartmentalizing or somewhat consciously rationalizing isn’t knowable by observers. Theirs is a Shakespearean family drama.
I think Vanity Fair author Fox gives Ivana Trump a pass if she is suggesting she is unconsciously compartmentalizing because it doesn’t matter what the underlying psychological mechanisms are.
Ivanka Trump is clearly a hypocrite. To echo what Mariken wrote in the comments “I believe she is very personal ambitious and like her father cares ruthlessly about prestige and money. Aligning with her father has been necessary for her economic ambition.”
The dictionary explains hypocrisy in a few words: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.
Trump has turned a huge minority of the country into a nation of compartmentalizers, rationalizers, and hypocrites. White House and congressional Republican Trump sycophants with no familial connection to Trump are repugnant hypocrites and self-serving toadies. They can’t even use psychology as an excuse.
My earlier story about Ivanka Trump