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Superficial observation of Tucker Carlson's recent works, interviews and speeches suggest that he has undergone some sort of personal epiphany. An epiphany in the traditional sense of the word, a religious experience leading to a renewed and very compelling Christian faith.

This is rank speculation but, if true, it would explain much of Carlson's political positions. It would suggest that he's not become anti-Semitic but rather Pro Christian. It is possible to see his criticism of Israel as part of his peace and love prospective generated by a conversion experience.

Similarly, his harsh criticism and borderline conspiratorial understanding of the American system might also be the product of a spiritual view of the world that does not tolerate corruption.

It is possible that he is not so much Pro Russian and anti-American or anti-Israel as might appear, rather he simply supports Russia's policies because he sees Russia as a defender of Christianity.

I would add further speculate that his abstinence from alcohol may well be tied into his new worldview and connected to a Christian conversion.

Again this is pure speculation but I note that the complaint of anti-Semitism being brought against Carlson his essentially a collection of innuendo and inference against which Carlson has issued vehement denials. In other words one set of speculations vs. another and confronted by denial.

But when accusing someone of anti-Semitism, like racism, the duty of proof is very heavy indeed because the damage is likewise very heavy.

To refine my previous comment:

A conversion experience actually converts the way one sees the world. An Islamicist does not see the world the way you and I do; he filters it through the closed loop of his faith. So it is not so much that he rejects Western culture, he simply does not have room for it because he is invested in sharia.

It is possible that a Christian convert now sees the incessant, often grubby, squabbles within the Beltway as something utterly irrelevant to a new reality. The daily stuff that occupies us here on Free Republic is all beside the point.

The new reality is not strictly anti-Semitism or anti-Americanism or pro-Russian bias, but a judgment of the world according to a new paradigm.

Superficial observation of Tucker Carlson’s recent works, interviews and speeches suggest that he has undergone some sort of personal epiphany. An epiphany in the traditional sense of the word, a religious experience leading to a renewed and very compelling Christian faith.

You may be right, but I’ll go a step more nuanced. I believe that for he and Candace it may be about dispensational vs non-dispensational doctrine.

“It is possible that he is not so much Pro Russian and anti-American...”

How do you join the concept of “anti-American” to anything Carlson has said or done?

Voltaire said notice those who you are not allowed to criticize, they are your real rulers.

Superficial observation of Tucker Carlson's recent works, interviews and speeches suggest that he has undergone some sort of personal epiphany

Yep. You're probably right.

Some people experience meaningful and profound life changes, whether they are religious or not (near-death experiences, for example). It ain't unusual.

If true for Tucker, he is stricken with the reality of "Truth."

Facts is facts. Genocide is real, and it ain't the victims self-destructing themselves. An over-the-top aggressor with our close help (yet, another proxy war), is wiping them out.

As for Russia, they have undergone a transition and bounced back from a century of communism and Godlessness. They don't condone the rot we accept in this country and have pulled themselves up by the bootstraps over the last 40 or so years to become a major world power.

Both of the Tucker targets may deserve a break from the lies that are promoted about them. Lies that, among other things, are leading us to self-destruction!

Go Tucker.