Angela Bassett
The Golden Globe winning best actress is best known for her roles in “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “Boyz n the Hood,” and “Malcolm X.” Over the years, Bassett has used that star power for a variety of left-wing causes, from supporting President Obama’s campaigns for president to supporting gun control at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. At the convention, she introduced survivors from the shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C. the year before. She’s also said that “just about anyone” would be a better president than President Trump.
Britney Spears
The singer was one of the few celebrities to defend former President George W. Bush during the beginning of the Iraqi War, despite his false claims that they had weapons of mass destruction. “Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes,” she said. “We should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.” In 2001, she did a commercial for Pepsi that co-starred 1996 Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole. Despite being a registered Republican, she went on to endorse both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Arianna Huffington
Most people know her name from the left-leaning “Huffington Post,” which she founded and ran for years, both before and after it was sold to AOL. Originally, however, Huffington was a Republican. Her former husband, former Rep. Michael Huffington, unsuccessfully ran for Senate on the Republican ticket in 1994, and Arianna herself was a strong supporter of Newt Gingrich’s “Republican Revolution.” Somewhere along the line she moved to the left, endorsing Sen. John Kerry for president in 2004, speaking at a Democratic convention in 2005, and helping John Stewart with his “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in 2010.