It is time, once again, to reckon with presidential candidate and meme-warrior Marianne Williamson

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Last night’s Democratic debates were about what you’d expect. The candidates talked over each other continuously; Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continued to cement themselves as the only worthwhile contenders; and Marianne Williamson made a good, important point about Flint, Michigan and the depths of American racism that was undercut immediately by her decision to use vaguely spiritualist terminology to cap off the message.
This last point—Williamson’s evocation of the “dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred” animating American politics—has been grabbed up and run with by the internet because, despite the rest of what she’s saying being well-put, “dark psychic force” is some very silly shit.