Kamala Harris now knows what strong women before her knew: the true enemy is always misogyny | Sonia Purnell

Trump and his supporters are happy to deploy vile sexual slurs. It's a timeworn tactic - and the fight against it must not cease

Oh no, here we go again. The Donald Trump admirer Laura Loomer makes claims that Kamala Harris used sex to advance her career and reach striking distance of the White House, and it all feels horribly inevitable. A vile sexual joke comparing Harris and Hillary Clinton appears on social media. Trump quickly reposts it.

Now 59 and happily married to a lawyer, Harris's relationship with the former San Francisco mayor and California power-player Willie Brown was in the mid-90s when she was barely 30. But then, the sex life of a woman in public life is always fair game to her detractors, even decades later.

Sonia Purnell is the author of Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue & power

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