Is There a Responsibility as a President to Be a Philosopher King?

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Is there a responsibility as a president to be a thought leader in that way? I think Trump probably does hold a reputation as being someone who successfully for the better or for worse, you might argue, thought led a lot of America. We have not had the sort of philosopher king in many decades. The last one like that really would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.

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