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While many observers initially dismissed Carlson’s message as vague or theatrical, the post actually connects directly to statements he made weeks earlier during a conversation with journalist Megyn Kelly.
During that interview, Carlson argued that the growing push for military confrontation with Iran was being fueled by a narrative campaign within conservative media circles.
Carlson described what he believed was a coordinated messaging effort designed to shape public opinion in favor of war.
“What people like Levin are trying to do is a species of witchcraft,” Tucker told Kelly. “It’s really simple: you repeat something until it becomes true.”
Carlson then outlined what he believed was the mechanism behind that messaging strategy.
“Khamenei must die. We’re going into war. We’re gonna knock off the government. This is good for us. Anyone who’s against it is an antisemite, a Nazi, should be expelled, Benedict Arnold, not allowed in the White House. You keep repeating things that are untrue until they become true.”
Carlson continued by explaining why he used the language of magic and incantations to describe the phenomenon.
“You speak, you create truth by speaking,” Tucker said. “If you can talk reality into being – this is what an incantation is. This is what a spell is.”
Just two days after that conversation aired, the United States and Israel launched strikes targeting Iranian assets.
The timing intensified debate within conservative political circles, where divisions over foreign policy have been growing for years. A younger populist wing of the movement has increasingly questioned interventionist policies that dominated Washington for decades.
Carlson’s use of the term “spell” was not new.
Months earlier, during an appearance on the Judging Freedom podcast with Andrew Napolitano, Carlson used the same language while discussing another prominent conservative figure.
That time, he was referring to Mike Huckabee.
Carlson suggested that some political leaders appeared to have adopted extreme positions that, in his view, were difficult to explain through normal political reasoning.
“I look at him and I see a man under a spell,” Tucker said. “I mean this – and I’ll be mocked for it – but I mean it.”
Carlson contrasted Huckabee’s comments with those of longtime Washington figures whose motivations he believes are easier to understand politically.
But in Huckabee’s case, Carlson suggested something deeper was driving the rhetoric.
“When he says, ‘God will destroy our country if we don’t support Bibi’ – it’s like: how could someone ever say something like that? I don’t know the answer, but I think it’s more metaphysical than political.”
The disagreement reflects a larger ideological battle taking place within the conservative movement itself.
Figures aligned with the traditional national security establishment have argued that confronting Iran is necessary for global stability and for protecting American allies.
Others, including Carlson and several rising populist voices, have argued that U.S. foreign policy should focus far more narrowly on direct American interests.
In Carlson’s view, that core question has largely been ignored.
Not whether Iran is a hostile regime.
Not whether Israel deserves security.
But whether another military conflict actually benefits the American people.
Carlson has repeatedly framed the issue around a single, simple standard.
“How does this make Americans richer, safer, happier?”
It is a question that has increasingly resonated with voters who feel that decades of foreign conflicts have delivered little benefit to ordinary Americans.
Carlson’s brief message on X now appears to be less of a prediction and more of a warning.
By writing “Pray that the spell breaks and the world is saved,” Carlson was urging Americans to reconsider the narrative forces that, in his view, helped push the country toward another war.
With the conflict now underway and the stakes continuing to rise across the Middle East, the debate Carlson ignited shows no sign of fading.
And those nine words may continue echoing long after the bombs stop falling.
