\u201cSuck it up, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pauline didn\u2019t hold back after chronically unpopular Victorian premier Jacinta Allan played the victimhood card over billboards seen in Melbourne depicting her as a witch. Allan called it sexist. So did Albanese and \u2013 in a blast from the past \u2013 so did former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allan must be relieved that she can finally claim to be a victim of something. Every other lefty activist does. It\u2019s like a badge of honour for them. Since when did people start idolising victims over heroes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These days Pauline is being asked by the media to comment on everything, no matter how irrelevant. In this case, however, it was nothing new to the One Nation leader who\u2019s been forced to deal with much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social media denizens quickly found cartoons and ads in 1990s newspapers calling Pauline the \u2018witch from Ipswich\u2019 and the Senator herself told Sky News that no less than former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer had called Pauline a witch who should be burned at the stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No woman from the left side of politics ever came to Pauline\u2019s defence. The \u2018mean girls\u2019 of the left are very selective about who they accept as a victim of sexism and who they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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