The Democrats’ Visceral Fear of Losing to Donald Trump
Their trauma is especially clear in Michigan, the host state of the second round of primary debates.
DETROIT—Marianne Williamson is an unusual presence in the presidential race: her inscrutable accent, her talk of a “false god” and the political power of love, and her ability to translate her career in self-help into enough support to make the debates twice over.
Yet it was Williamson—not any of the professional Democrats onstage—who last night was able to cut through a long back-and-forth about health-care policy that perhaps no insurance adjuster, let alone the average voter, could make sense of.
“I have some concerns,” she said, referencing other candidates’
