Writer and actress Lena Dunham is no stranger to hostility. She’s made a name for herself by doing and saying gross things, and then plays the victim when people think those things are gross.
But it’s not just those of the right-leaning persuasion who find fault with Dunham, she recently said at a Clinton campaign event. It seems Dunham is taking heat from the Left because she supports former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. And that has gotten her “more hostility” from the Left than she ever received from the Right.
“The fact that other members of the Democratic Party have spoken to me like I was an ill informed child for voting for someone who represents everything I think this country should be is outrageous,” Dunham said.
Dunham left Twitter, claiming harassment, so the “vitriol” is coming from her Instagram feed, on the photos she posts of herself campaigning for Clinton around the country.
Dunham’s “tipping point” came when a Sanders supporter claimed the Vermont senator had done “more for feminism than Hillary Clinton has.”
Dunham can believe whatever she wants, and support whomever she wants. She has, in the past, been critical of Clinton’s treatment of women, allegedly telling a crowd at a private dinner party that she was disturbed by the way Clinton handled accusations of sexual assault against her husband in the 1990s.
It seems to be something about this election cycle. In 2008, the Right made fun of the cult around Barack Obama. Now in 2016, it seems every political candidate has their own cult. Clinton has her cult of self-described feminists. Sanders has his cult of college kids. On the Right, business mogul Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have their own cults. Former candidate Marco Rubio had a cult as well.
The only candidate still in the race that doesn’t have a cult is Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Or maybe he just has a smaller following, made up mostly of people in Ohio.
But it is interesting to learn that Dunham believes she is getting “more hostility” from the Left over her support of Clinton than she ever received “from the American right wing.”
Ashe Schow is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
