Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said her spiritual and principle-based campaign is meant to re-bond a country torn apart by President Donald Trump and an amoral economy.
Williamson took on the"entrenched" political establishment and said principles which are inscribed in marble and on documents have been left to die in the American people themselves. The longtime self-help author said the religious and spiritual foundations of the U.S. -- and not the status quo -- ended slavery and enacted civil rights as she made the case that"harnessing emotions is crucial to beating Donald Trump.
"I challenge the idea that only the people whose careers have been entrenched for years in the limitations of the mindset that drove us into this ditch are qualified to lead us out of this ditch," Williamson told the longtime editor ofmagazine."I think this is one of those times in American history [that requires a spiritual leader]."
She also took on Democrats and members of the U.S. news media for their characterization of her as a crystal ball-gazing anti-vaxxer -- a description she thoroughly rejected on both counts. In discussing tangible policies under a Williamson administration, she touted her path to a"moral economy" that moves away from trickle-down economics which includes the repeal of the 2017 tax cut for the wealthiest Americans in favor of reinstating a middle-class tax cut. She said her administration would stop billion-dollar corporate subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and she would take back the government's negotiating power with big pharmaceutical companies.
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