Love, Fear and Marianne Williamson

When establishment liberals mock progressive spiritual icon Marianne Williamson, they’re signaling a profound cultural shift pitting believers vs. an emerging party of secular non-believers.

A pure believer vs. secular nonbeliever election would be unprecedented in America, resulting in a Donald Trump landslide. If 2016 and the protests that followed were a divisive cultural replay of 1968, then 2020 could resemble 1972 (when progressives were smashed in every state but Massachusetts).

Catholics are swing voters: the largest, most diverse religious denomination with voters of every ideological stripe. The candidate who wins a majority of Catholics wins the White House every time — yet Democrats don’t seem to understand they are pushing believers away: from the faithful in the pews to the “spiritual but not religious” represented by bestselling author Marianne Williamson. That’s why conservatives seem to be nicer to Williamson than her fellow liberals (who often equate…