Is There Room Now for a Feminine in Politics?

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Sally Kohn: You speak in a way that I think is very overtly feminine. She says you are not afraid to speak in the language of self-help, theropizing. A lot of people who would be writing articles mocking me actually go to yoga class where they hear my name as the author of some affirmation at the end of their yoga class. Some of them know better. And those who don't know better, just trying to protect their perch.

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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