The Left Found A New Leavitt

Support females. Unless they dare speak out against men playing in their sport, in which case, ruin them. Women should run the world. Unless they have a baby, then they’ll probably undergo acute psychosis and strangle their kids, and that’s fine. Empower all women. Unless they’re blonde and work in the Trump administration. Then it’s open season.

The latter is prescient this week, as the Left has found a new young, attractive woman to terrorize in Natalie Harp, now that Karoline Leavitt isn’t in their line of sight.

The 35-year-old special and executive assistant to the president was launched into the news cycle after Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (Democrat, dweeb, professional douche) read a scripted line at a rally insinuating that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job,” preferring instead to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” on a plane gifted by the Emir of Qatar.

The small, beta, estrogen-filled half-feline was being about as subtle as a brick through a window. The implication: the president and his aide are having some sort of love affair, based on the fact that when there was a bomb threat from Iran, she was one of a few people who snuck onto another escape flight with the president (the sole target of the attack). Journalists are still incredibly upset that after years of libeling, defaming, and belittling the president and his administration, he didn’t sacrifice his safety for them by telling Iran exactly where he was.

This empowered Maggie Haberman of The New York Times to describe Harp as Trump’s “binky” during a podcast devoted to making this story something that it isn’t, the Daily Beast to publish her private letters, CNN’s Erin Burnett to primetime Harp’s estranged brother to trash her, and Maureen Dowd, who should perhaps cool it on the botox, to compare Harp to the crazed girlfriend from “Obsession.”

Believe all women. Support fellow females. Be a girl’s girl. Unless she’s pretty, successful, and votes red — then, evidently, the sisterhood becomes a firing squad.

But this Natalie Harp must have done something unusual to stoke their ire, right? Like how Kamala Harris legitimately slept her way into the District Attorney’s office or how Hillary Clinton looked the other way as her husband ushered in a revolving door of women to stay close to power? Wrong. She’s a California native from a conservative Christian family who studied business and real estate, went public in 2019 with her Stage 2 bone cancer diagnosis, and is alive today because a doctor was willing to try an off-label immunotherapy — treatment access made possible, as she tells it, by Trump’s 2018 Right to Try Act. Her father died by suicide in 2020. Her brother, an anti-American, gringo sandinista, man-bun activist who goes by “Spirit.wagon” on Instagram, doesn’t speak to her. Nobody’s heard from the mother in years.

Despite her apparent family shortcomings and lack of nuclear support, she’s made a highly impressive career for herself in political media, gaining the attention of President Trump after she credited him with saving her life, and earning a spot within his campaign and inner circle. Not because of nefarious reasons, but because she is incredibly hard-working, devoted, and loyal to a fault, sometimes forgetting to eat and sleep. She’s unmarried, single, and dedicated to the craft at 35. The Left should be proud.

Instead, because she once wrote that Trump was her “guardian and protector” and compared him to George Bailey in a campaign speech, she’s being cast as unhinged. A woman who has survived cancer, a father’s suicide, and a commie brother finding stability and purpose in her work is not evidence of instability. It’s evidence of exactly the opposite. He’s an 80-year-old man she may well see as a father figure. Or “Unc,” as the kids say. That’s not a scandal. That’s just how humans process grief.

It isn’t surprising that the same cadre of people who excuse a psychotic mother for strangling her three children to death, look the other way when a nazi-tatted communist allegedly sexually assaults a woman because he’s running for office as a D and the victim was an R, and forgive female genital mutilation and forced burqa coverage because it’s “their religion,” are also misogynistic towards successful conservative women.

The Left is showing us, day after day, that they will loudly defend the idea of female empowerment while quietly deciding, case by case, which actual women deserve it. A cancer survivor with a tragic family history and an unglamorous work ethic doesn’t fit the “victim” narrative, so she gets recast as the “obsessive aide” who’s sleeping with an 80-year-old instead.

Feminism sure looks different nowadays, doesn’t it?

Harp will survive this slander, just as she has capably survived worse than cable news, but there is a broader insult here, to every woman the Left claims to speak for. Record female appointments in this administration, the youngest female press secretary, women succeeding without checking a single progressive box — and none of it counts, because counting it would mean admitting conservative women can win on merit. So instead, they fixate on a new blonde villain every cycle with the same tired verdict: she must be sleeping her way into relevance.

It’s cruel, and it’s pathetic. Even Bill Maher is tired of it: “I don’t know why you have to go after her… She had bone cancer in her 20s. She liked Trump because he sped up experimental treatment, which she believes helped her. But, you know, in America it’s just like, ‘Oh good, someone new to hate.’ … Let the man have one f*cking friend.”

Let the man have a friend. And let the girl have a father figure.