Months ago, polls started to show Hillary losing support among women. She needs to shore up her female support. But I am shocked that her campaign thinks they can do this with Dunham. Read their initial interview with even a hint of critical reasoning skills and it is all pathetic identity-politics pandering. Young women like to talk about dresses, right?

Every other time I’ve seen reports on female politicians’ fashion sense (and often it is a chief officer of state, although that may be because Theresa May and Condi Rice both look great in knee-high boots) many commentators will complain it is sexist and trivializing. But for Hillary it is supposed to be humanizing? And Dunham is so respected that she gets a pass for this line of questioning?

Second, millennial women following the 2016 race that early in the cycle wanted fashion talk? Didn’t feminism teach us that this fashion and politics stuff was pandering to low expectations of female intellects? Yet Dunham instantly reaches for the clothes talk.