Marianne Williamson told the New York Times of her candidacy, 'I feel I’m in my depth.'
Marianne Williamson won’t slow down for those skeptical of her presidential run, telling the New York Times Magazine, “That’s cynicism. We don’t have time for that right now.”
Williamson, a former cabaret singer and minister of a Detroit Unity church, told the New York Times that running for president wasn’t originally an ambition of hers. Although in 2014, she ran for congressional office as an independent, the Times notes, she only “learned of her presidential candidacy” in 2017, while watching President Trump on television in her New York City apartment.
Since Williamson announced her run in January, she’s been ruthlessly mocked for her past and present comments. At a June event in New Hampshire, she claimed that mandatory vaccine laws are “Draconian” and “Orwellian” . She had also declared diagnosed depression"a scam" and was called a fat-shamer in her 2012 book, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever.
— Marianne Williamson July 17, 2019 However, the past eight months hasn’t dissuaded her from running. As Williamson told the New York Times, “People would say, ‘You’re out of your depth.’ I feel I’m in my depth. A deeper conversation is in the depth. I’m the only one who mentioned American foreign policy in Latin America. I’m the only one who mentioned that our health care system is basically a sickness care system.
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