Jon Ossoff is quite the miracle worker. Perhaps the Democratic senator can’t turn water into wine, but he has managed to turn whining conservatives into impassioned feminists.

During a rally last Sunday, the Georgia senator delivered a takedown of Donald Trump, which included a reference to his aide Natalie Harp. “He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said of the president. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”

Those three words – travel with Natalie – were deliberately loaded. Harp was in the spotlight at the time because of the decoy plane story. The 35-year-old was one of a handful of people Trump had taken onto a different plane via a catering truck when he was worried about a potential assassination attack targeting Air Force One. Intrigue as to the exact nature of the relationship between Harp and Trump was heightened by the fact that Melania Trump, the president’s third wife, hadn’t been seen in public for weeks at the time. (Funnily enough, she magically reappeared on Thursday, a few days after Ossoff’s comments, for a press conference where she lovingly held hands with Trump. Very cute.)

Ossoff’s remarks about “Natalie” might have been something of a cheap shot, but it’s hilarious to watch the right discover misogyny and decry the remarks as sexist. Suddenly, everyone from Fox News to prominent conservatives are very worried about a professional woman not being taken seriously.

The former House speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, said on Twitter/X that Ossoff owes Harp an apology. “If a conservative Republican had attacked a liberal Democrat working professional woman the way Ossoff smeared Natalie Harp there would be cries to kick them off the ticket and reject this kind of misogynistic language diminishing and smearing someone who is simply doing their job.”

The conservative commentator Scott Jennings, who is rumoured to be a potential replacement........

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