Her Again?

Marianne Williamson is running for President again. 

Because if a crooked real-estate developer (I know, a redundancy) and beauty-pageant owner could be President (he couldn't), why not a college dropout turned self-help love guru and spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey? 

"I wouldn’t be running for President," Williamson said, "if I didn’t believe I could contribute to harnessing the collective sensibility that I feel is our greatest hope at this time."

You mean the collective sensibility that calls upon us to stand by President Biden and quell a primary challenge from within the Democratic Party that could help the 2024 Republican presidential nominee?

To those who are content to write off Marianne Williamson as a sideshow who isn't going anywhere - a description Edward-Isaac Dovere gleefully used to describe Martin O'Malley - Republicans were quick to so the same to Pat Buchanan in 1992, but his presidential candidacy derailed George Bush's re-election hopes.  Williamson could very well be able harness - as she puts it - pie-in-the-sky progressives who are dissatisfied with Biden's efforts to return America to the social contract that existed before Ronald Reagan destroyed it and fail to realize that the collapse of much of his progressive agenda was due to various reasons (*cough cough*, Joe Manchin, *cough cough*, Kyrsten Sinema, *cough cough*), and she could end up forming an unexpectedly potent political force.

And those who still doubt that possibility, I offer these two words - Bernie Sanders.    

And now that Marianne's in, I expect Dwayne Johnson - who has seriously talked about running for President with CNN's Jake Tapper -to throw his hat into the ring as well.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Can anyone tell me what sort of nation we're living in where Marianne Williamson and Dwayne Johnson are taken seriously as political contenders and Martin O'Malley is laughed at?  This country needs an enema!