MARIANNE WILLIAMSON BACKS NANCY PELOSI’S ‘PERFECT’ PRIMARY CHALLENGER:

Saying she’s “very, very concerned with the corporatist direction of the party,” former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is endorsing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s progressive challenger in November’s general election.

In a video posted on Instagram over the weekend, the best-selling spiritual author and Democrat endorsed self-described democratic socialist candidate Shahid Buttar as she argued that Pelosi – the first female House speaker in American history — deserved a strong challenge from the left.

I too have been “very, very concerned with the corporatist direction” of the Democratic Party for quite some time. Presumably though, under the leadership of “Democratic Socialists,” that direction would switch from corporatism, in which massive corporations are essentially treated by the Democrats as public utilities, to nationalizing them. E.g., the story that Glenn linked to earlier today about Jacobin magazine wanting to nationalize Amazon.com, and these earlier examples of the Nation magazine wanting to nationalize the news industry and Hollywood. Nationalizing socialism? I’d rather not party like it’s 1939.