Self-help author Marianne Williamson is aware that her first debate performance garnered a fair amount of laughter. But she’s unlikely to change her ways.
“I choose not to base my sense of self on other people’s projections,” she added. “I receive more than enough support from people I respect. I’m out there continuing to do what I do, continuing the conversation that I’m very clear no one else is having.”
“I need to just be myself,” she said. “Elizabeth should be Elizabeth, Bernie should be Bernie, and Marianne should be Marianne.”
Her candidacy reminds me of something … oh! I know - - -
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She’ll begin every answer by laying out crystals in a hexagram pattern and chanting an incantation while holding an amulet over it “to harness the vibrations.” The other candidates will be asked to face West and remain silent while smudging sage wands.
Her presence in the race does not by itself prove that we still have free and fair elections – but it’s not inconsistent with that possibility, either.
I can literally name a dozen TPM commentators who I would vote for President over Marianne Williamson, and I don’t even need to think too hard about it.