How Do We Keep Our Spiritual Sanity Through Election Day/ Week/ Month?

I’m writing this before Election Day, but since we all know the results won’t be clear for days or weeks — as the Democrats try to cheat, and half the Republicans wink and enable them — it can be read any time before the final results are certified and still be timely. How do we keep our heads and stay close to God through the tempest of these upcoming days?

The stakes of this race could hardly be any higher. The War Party and the Abortion Party have merged. The people who lied us into the Iraq War and hired Anthony Fauci to create viruses like COVID are now endorsing the people who lied us into the lockdowns, the Russia Collusion hoax, and the January 6 show trials. For those of us who have been saying since 1992 that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Bushes and the Clintons, this race is some vindication. It certainly proves that we should have been listening to Pat Buchanan, not Karl Rove, for the past 30 years. (Maybe we should all go watch Buchanan’s prophetic convention speech, jam-packed with truths for which the voters weren’t ready at that time.)

Our Last Election?

Elon Musk warns us that this might well be our last real election, since the Democrats have made clear they’ll offer citizenship to the 10 million or more illegal aliens Biden and Harris waved across the border and resettled in red counties. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Harris herself have called for the government to suppress “misinformation,” which is code for “political dissent.”

We remember the dry run of totalitarian governance that was the COVID panic, when genuine experts in contagious disease were censored by 22-year-old interns at Google who were obeying the corrupt bureaucrats of the World Health Organization, who were themselves in cahoots with Big Pharma and the Deep State. And our churches were closed. Our elections were made insecure. Our kids stewed at home, not learning, to keep them “safe,” while senior citizens in nursing homes died by the tens of thousands thanks to blue state governors dumping COVID patients into the one place where they might actually kill people.

If the same callous elites can win or steal this election, do we think they’ll be any gentler with us next time?

The “Physical Presence of Evil” Among the Media

The spiritual warfare that usually stays veiled behind the surface events of the day is poking through the curtain, like an intruder behind our drapes. When Eric Metaxas attended Steve Bannon’s press conference after his lawless imprisonment for four months, he was shocked by the “palpable, physical presence of evil” among the reporters who came to taunt a man just released from a cell. He was so shaken that he sat down and immediately recorded a segment with Bannon to talk about it.

We just learned that some 18 months ago, Tucker Carlson went through a nightmarish, preternatural experience. As The Guardian reports:

Tucker Carlson, the former CNN and Fox News political chat host, has said he was “physically mauled” by a demon a year and a half ago, in an assault that he says left him bleeding and with scars from “claw marks.”

Carlson made the claim while speaking in an upcoming documentary, Christianities? In a preview clip on YouTube, Carlson is asked by John Heers of the non-profit First Things Foundation if he believed that “the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the good.”

“That’s what happened to me. I had a direct experience with it,” said Carlson.

Asked if he was referring to journalism, Carlson responded: “No, in my bed at night. I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.”

Carlson, who said he still bears the scars, said his assailant was a “demon.” He added: “Or by something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”

He said at the time of the attack, he was asleep in bed. I was “totally confused, I woke up, and I couldn’t breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate,” he said.

“I walked around outside and then I walked in and my wife and dogs had not woken up. And they’re very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and I was just in my boxer shorts and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding.”

He added that he explained the encounter to an assistant, an evangelical Christian, who told him: “That happens, people are attacked in their beds by demons.”

Carlson, who lives in the woods of Maine, did not say where the attack occurred, but called it a “transformative experience” that left him “seized with this very intense desire to read the Bible.”

More Porn, More Abortion, More Replacements for Americans

If you were wondering what woke Carlson up to the battle we’re really in, now you have your answer. On War Room Sunday, Bannon pointed to Carlson’s experience, and the awakenings of other prominent people — some of whom used to be our political foes, from Naomi Wolf and Russell Brand to Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard. People with sensitive noses can smell the brimstone.

I fear that the elites who rules us are barely in control themselves anymore, that they’re just obeying the promptings of the dark spirits to whom they’ve surrendered. That’s why they’re so reckless, so blatant, so cartoonishly malevolent. Reporters don’t even bother with the pretense of objectivity anymore. Comedians hardly try to be funny, but simply sneer and rant. The Democrats campaign almost exclusively on promising more porn, more abortion, and more docile immigrants to replace the kids we’re now too beaten down to even bring into this world.

As we watch the scramble of corrupt election officials to find enough votes overseas, or in mass-produced batches “discovered” days after the voting ends, and wonder if our courts will finally hear our complaints on their actual merits, how do we keep our bearings? How do we keep this from turning into a months-long panic attack?

Let’s make sure to stay close to friends and family, and to Christ. Let’s pray with confidence born of solid, irrefutable facts:

• We stand with the Natural Law God wrote on the human heart, which no demon can efface.

• We serve the Architect of a magnificent Cosmos, intimately ordered from the tiniest quark up through billions of galaxies, fine-tuned to make life possible.

• We’re redeemed by the blood of Christ, the Logos Who made the world, then entered it to reclaim it — every square inch — from His enemy.

• We stand in communion with thousands, and millions, of saints — who kept faith with Christ in worse places and times than we will ever face, and who now enjoy their reward.

• Jesus Himself told us, “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

If that’s not enough to comfort us, then we have deeper problems than politics.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.