[Note from Patricia Reed: The following passage is from a much longer, somewhat rambling essay now available on Naomi Wolf's Substack site (which is linked below). I have extracted this passage, and further edited it lightly, to facilitate it reaching the maximum number of people possible. Those gluttons for punishment who follow my writings, know that I feel I could support either Donald Trump or RFK Jr. for President. (I could also have supported Ron DeSantis or Vivek Ramaswamy. I could not support Nikki Haley.)
I'm grateful to Naomi Wolf for thinking the unthinkable and speaking the unspeakable: MAGA people and RFK Jr people need to figure out how to bridge their differences in a marriage of convenience. Wolf does not know how. I certainly don't know how. But I understand where she is coming from. Yes, it seems quixotic in the extreme. Yes, the logistic obstacles are huge. But my gut says that we at least need to think about this.]
Excerpted from Naomi Wolf’s “Letter from Charlottesville”:
"We need to stop thinking that this will be a normal election.
If President Biden and President Trump end up facing off as 'usual' — (or if it is Michelle Obama against President Trump) — the margin of victory for President Trump may be too narrow to beat the inevitable cheating and electoral violations from the other side. And the elections may be held in 'emergency' conditions, such as are now narratively escalating, in which we are all forced to stay home and send in absentee ballots — a recipe for corruption.
Treasonous forces have taken hold of our nation. We need to think outside the box.
The only force that can defeat the globalist plans, is a combination in some shape, of the followers of RFK Jr — who takes more votes from President Biden than from President Trump — and the followers of the MAGA movement. The only force that can preserve our Republic is what will emerge (and I don’t claim to as yet know what this might look like) — when RFK’s and President Trump’s movements align and mutually reinforce one another.
This means taking a deep breath, on the disaffected-liberal side. The objections that RFK Jr voters (and friends) may have to President Trump, are stylistic and cosmetic compared to the cost of losing the nation.
Likewise, it means creating tolerance for differences, on the MAGA side. Even ‘red-hot’ issues such as abortion or green energy, important in peacetime, are trivial in times of war; compared to an eternity of servitude for oneself and one’s children. More than our sense of self politically, is the importance of reflecting on how we can be of service to our country.
The same is true for these candidates as well. They both have something to offer this country; so let us utilize them both. Americans from both perspectives and both walks of life, must realize that if they do not find a way to align, there will be no America left — in very short order.
Americans must unite accordingly, creating an unstoppable force --
Then it can really be 1774.
And we can really prevail.”