Mallory McMorrow Wants Power—and Yes, That Is a Good Thing

They were
wed in 2017. Although they lived in both Los Angeles and New York, both said
McMorrow urged them to settle down in Michigan, Wert’s home state, where he now
works as vice-president for communications and marketing for Radiant Nuclear, a
company that builds micro reactors. 
Among other things, McMorrow said she was charmed by the state when she
and her husband visited it each summer, joining fellow travelers for 1,000-mile
road rallies around The Mitten. They bought a house in Royal Oak, a suburb north
of Detroit, to raise their daughter, Noa.

That name is
Israeli, McMorrow said, and her husband is Jewish. She acknowledged the irony
of living in a suburb famously remembered as home of “The Radio Priest,” Father
Charles Coughlin, who preached anti-Semitism over the air to a national
audience in the 1930s. Back then, McMorrow said, she and Wert probably could
not have bought a home in Royal Oak because of their mixed marriage. Now, she
said, they observe both Passover and Easter and teach their daughter to be
open-minded.

“I was very
nervous for many years to talk about my religious upbringing,” McMorrow said.
“My relationship with Catholicism is complicated, like a lot of people’s is. On
top of that, I’m married to a Jewish man. But I realized when we don’t talk
about it, we leave the vacuum for Republicans to really have a monopoly on
religion.”