This Great Spiritual Battle: Tucker Carlson, By James Reed

Tucker Carlson is one of the few conservative media personalities to see a religious meaning behind President Trump escaping assassination. Trump turned his head and a bullet that would normally have blown his brains out, missed and instead nicked his ear, a minor injury. As Tucker said, speaking at the Heritage Foundation event at the Republican National Convention, Trump did not use the opportunity to inflame the nation, as Biden would do, but to plea for national unity, which Tucker sees as statesmanship at the level of the great presidents and leaders of the past

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The wider significance though is that this was one battle in an on-going spiritual war: "There is a spiritual battle under way," he said. "There is no logical way to understand what we're seeing now in temporal terms. You just can't. These are not political divides. There are forces — and they're very obvious now; they've decided, for whatever reason, to take off the mask — whose only goal is chaos, violence, destruction."

"Now, it took me about 10 years to figure this out. I'm not a super genius, but what group do they dislike most? What group are they absolutely terrified of and hoping to eliminate? Well, it's Christians. That's who it is: It's Christians," he said.

"The group that makes them angriest — triggers them most, I guess we would say now — is Christians," Carlson added, citing "Christian nationalism," "people who pray outside abortion clinics," and "people who celebrate Easter, not Trans Visibility Day."

This point had been made by great thinkers of the past, such as Major Douglas, Eric Butler and literary giants like C. S. Lewis, so the Republicans have not discovered something new. However, it is hopeful that people who have considerable influence in the information and social media age are thinking this and saying it too.

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"Donald Trump is different. When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment, that was a transformation... This was the leader of a nation. And I think there's a difference... The presidency comes with great power, obviously. But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted... Legitimacy... Just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently... But being a leader is very different. It's not a title. It's organic. You can't name someone a leader. A leader is the bravest man.

"And in that moment, Donald Trump, months before the presidential election, became the leader of this nation... He said not a single word about himself... A leader's courage gives courage to his people.... Not a word about himself, about his people, period.

"And the second thing I noticed... is that he turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot... He did his best to bring the country together... No, this is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader I think I've ever seen.

"I do think the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other.... Democracy. In case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country. They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves... And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States... Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want.

"Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens... We've lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War Two... Does anybody care?... It's too insulting... It's a middle finger in the face of every American.... He actually cares because he's interested in the people who live here because that's his job... A president's duty is to his citizens.

"JD Vance... has views that are closer to Trump's voters than anyone else in Washington in office... That's called democracy... Something bigger is going on here... I'm starting to think it's gonna be okay.

"And the first thing he says is, I'm gonna stand guard outside your house... And then he says, but there's a lot of love... And we are seeing that love... God is among us right now, and I think that's enough. God bless you."

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"Carlson is not shy about telling it how he sees it.

Tucker Carlson believes the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is evidence of an ongoing "spiritual battle" in the United States.

Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event at the Republican National Convention, Carlson shared his view that "deeper" forces, like evil, are behind attacks like the one that occurred at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

'It's the religion of Jesus that makes them angry, and that suggests that maybe there is something a little deeper going on here.'

"I think what happened on Saturday — the assassination attempt against President Trump — reminded a lot of people of this or awakened a lot of people to this," Carlson said on Monday.

"There is a spiritual battle under way," he added. "There is no logical way to understand what we're seeing now in temporal terms. You just can't. These are not political divides. There are forces — and they're very obvious now; they've decided, for whatever reason, to take off the mask — whose only goal is chaos, violence, destruction."

According to Carlson, the forces that he identified are "dedicated to the destruction of people," and he believes they have a common enemy: Christians.

"Now, it took me about 10 years to figure this out. I'm not a super genius, but what group do they dislike most? What group are they absolutely terrified of and hoping to eliminate? Well, it's Christians. That's who it is: It's Christians," he said.

"The group that makes them angriest — triggers them most, I guess we would say now — is Christians," Carlson added, citing "Christian nationalism," "people who pray outside abortion clinics," and "people who celebrate Easter, not Trans Visibility Day."

Carlson pointed to previous revolutions throughout history — the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Revolution, among others — as evidence to prove his point.

"It's the religion of Jesus that makes them angry, and that suggests that maybe there is something a little deeper going on here," he said.

"It's not just that they're in the way. Christians are hardly in the way. They're the most peaceable people there are," Carlson continued. "They worship a God who tells them not to hurt other people, to turn the other cheek, to pray for their persecutor. So it's not like they're disruptive. They're the opposite of disruptive, and yet they're the enemy."

This is not the first time that Carlson has warned about an ongoing spiritual battle.

Earlier this year, Carlson argued the political conflicts happening in the U.S., which seem to be increasing in their existential nature, evidence a battle that is "not flesh and blood at all."

That language mirrors what the apostle Paul wrote in one of his letters nearly 2,000 years ago.

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms," Paul wrote in Ephesians."