Now, reporters are gently telling liberal stars to take a hike … and trying to disconnect their rants from the progressive movement.

It’s too late. Reporters spent the last few years elevating celebrity activism as the will of liberal America. There’s no turning back now.

Reviews for Perry’s new album, “Witness,” are withering. They’re even peddling listicles from all the awful reviews. She’s generating reams of negative press she couldn’t have predicted when she ditched her flirty pop stylings for grrl power activism.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected president, Katy Perry would still be just Katy Perry: a famous white lady whose feminism was predictably limited to endorsing a fellow white lady’s political campaign. In other words, Perry would have been just another complacent, cheerful celeb offering vacuous musings on girl power and glass ceilings.

Ouch.