2020 Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson argued that Democrats need something more than just “a person” in the next election.
Reportedly direct-messaging novelist Molly Jong-Fast’s mother, Erica Jong, on Thursday after Jong-Fast criticized her, Williamson wrote that “Trump is not a politician, he is a phenomenon. And establishment political strategy is going to have a very difficult time defeating that.”
Williamson warned that “they are sharpening their knives but the Republicans are going to bring the big guns to the battle.”
Williamson then went on to argue that Democrats would need a metaphysical strategy to defeat President Trump, whom she has accused of “emboldening a dark psychic force” in America. “We have to create our own phenomenon,” she urged. “That’s not a person, but a rising up of consciousness and energy and excitement that only emerges from some radical truth-telling, fresh rather than stale.”
“Sorry to see you’d call me ‘weird,’ Erica,” Williamson also wrote to Jong. She described their mutual willingness to live outside the box as “nothing weird,” but rather “deliciously wild.”
Williamson did not qualify for the upcoming Democratic primary debates this month after participating in the first two debates this summer. She is currently hovering in the single digits in most polls among primary contenders.
Also my moms phone doesn’t do screenshots? pic.twitter.com/gLQdrEwsVU
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 5, 2019
Why is she not praying away a hurricane like a normal person? pic.twitter.com/HMCdFqi8WE
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 5, 2019
