Tucker Carlson — a man who made his career asking uncomfortable questions — has now told a story so strange that the coastal elites can’t decide whether to ridicule him or weaponize it. On Megyn Kelly’s show and in footage from the Christianities project, Carlson recounts a terrifying night in which he says he was physically attacked while asleep, an episode he describes as both traumatic and spiritually shattering.
According to Carlson’s own account, he woke choking and in pain, found himself with bloody claw marks on his sides and shoulder, and watched his household — his wife and four dogs — remain mysteriously asleep as if nothing had happened. He insists the wounds didn’t match his hands, that the marks remained long after, and that the experience was not a hallucination but a violent, physical event.
What should be obvious to any decent person is that this is primarily a spiritual matter, not a punchline for late-night monologues. Carlson says he called on an evangelical assistant for guidance, was told that such nocturnal spiritual attacks do happen, and was thereafter gripped by a renewed hunger for Scripture — a private transformation the media should not treat with derision.
But predictably, the same cultural elites who lecture Americans on tolerance turned quickly to mockery; late-night comics and establishment outlets savored the chance to lampoon a man for admitting faith and fear. That reflexive scorn reveals more about the contempt Hollywood and New York have for religious Americans than it does about Carlson’s credibility.
We should also note Carlson’s larger worldview: this is the same commentator who links moral rot and technological peril to spiritual forces, and whether you agree with his metaphors or not, he’s forcing a conversation the press refuses to have honestly. The point isn’t to prove demons with charts and polls; it’s that millions of decent Americans live with religious convictions the elites treat as quaint curiosities, and that dismissal is a real cultural injury.
Conservatives ought to defend Carlson’s right to tell his own story and to seek meaning without being sneered at by the cultural mandarins. If this episode pushed him back toward Scripture, that’s a private renewal worthy of respect, not ridicule — and it should remind us that the debate over our country’s soul isn’t abstract; it’s fought in bedrooms and conscience alike. Stand for faith, common sense, and the dignity of every American voice being free to speak without being gaslit by the media.
