A number of conservative pundits talked up for 2020 presidential long-shot Marianne Williamson during Tuesday night’s debate.
Williamson, Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser, is one of many candidates polling around 1%. But she has gained notoriety — and social media traction — by her idiosyncratic answers. In Detroit, she was not afraid to attack the other candidates on the stage with her.
The 67-year-old slammed the other candidates for taking “tens of thousands and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars” from corporate donors, arguing that they now think they “have the moral authority to say we’re going to take them on.”
“The issue of gun safety, of course, is the NRA has us in a choke hold, the pharmaceutical companies, the health insurance companies, so do the fossil fuel companies, and so do the defense contractors,” Williamson later stated.
She also accused Trump of being a “dark psychic force.”
A number of conservatives praised her performance, and one or two seemed a little smitten.
Leave it to MARIANNE WILLIAMSON to point this out!
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 31, 2019
If you’re not in the bag for anybody, Williamson is legit running away with this.
— Will Wilkinson ? (@willwilkinson) July 31, 2019
So we just watched Marianne Williamson win the race portion of the debate.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) July 31, 2019
Presidential politics is a spiral of increasingly exaggerated backlash – Bush to Obama, Obama to Trump.
Imagine who the GOP will nominate as a backlash to President Marianne.
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 31, 2019
Marianne Williamson is the kind of reassuring leader I imagine for our post-apocalyptic dystopian future. #DemDebate #CNN
— Eric Fehrnstrom (@EricFehrn) July 31, 2019
