“I’ve traveled extensively throughout this country, and I’ve seen how much pain there is out there,” Williamson said in her announcement. “I’ve been up close and personal with people who didn’t have health care, who couldn’t survive on just one job, who were so depressed about so many of the conditions in their lives that were, in fact, at least indirectly due to bad public policy, and too many of them didn’t feel like the Democratic Party had their back.… We need to understand what it is that has made people emotionally and psychologically disconnect from a sense that the Democratic Party was part of a great legacy in American history.”
Williamson has an eclectic range of both progressive and questionable views. She’s on the record supporting Medicare for All, abortion access, and reparations for Black Americans. But she also views vaccine mandates as “draconian” and referred to cancer and AIDS as “physical manifestations of a psychic scream.” She also chimed in with an awful aside about Haitians while President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance were spreading horrendous lies about them eating pets.
“Continuing to dump on Trump because of the ‘eating cats’ issue will create blowback on Nov. 5,” she said in a now deleted post on X. “Haitian voodoo is in fact real, and to dismiss the story out-of-hand rather than listen to the citizens of Springfield, Ohio confirms in the minds of many voters the stereotype of Democrats as smug elite jerks who think they’re too smart to listen to anyone outside their own silo.”
maeryclarity on December 27th, 2024 at 05:00 UTC »
Oh wow, who could guess that a bunch of egotistical, self centered people with no morals and a habit of attacking anyone who disagrees with them would turn on each other and start infighting right away? WHO COULD GUESS THAT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ALONG WITH EACH OTHER?!!
It's SHOCKING pffffttttt
Hairybabyhahaha on December 27th, 2024 at 04:53 UTC »
The far right cannibalizing itself over the next four years might be the thing that saves us all.
masterscallit on December 27th, 2024 at 04:26 UTC »
The party hasn’t even started yet. MAGA is a dumpster fire. Zero plans on making anyone’s lives better. 100% overdosed on misinformation and primal fear.