“Suck it up, sweetheart.”

Pauline didn’t 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 – in a blast from the past – so did former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.

Allan must be relieved that she can finally claim to be a victim of something. Every other lefty activist does. It’s like a badge of honour for them. Since when did people start idolising victims over heroes?

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’s been forced to deal with much worse.

Social media denizens quickly found cartoons and ads in 1990s newspapers calling Pauline the ‘witch from Ipswich’ 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.

No woman from the left side of politics ever came to Pauline’s defence. The ‘mean girls’ of the left are very selective about who they accept as a victim of sexism and who they don’t.