Our Justice Department has been turned against citizens. That’s what happens in an advanced tyranny. People are languishing in prison without due process. That’s what happens in advanced tyranny. I found out that the administration for whom I'd voted had spent taxpayer money to lift out my accurate tweet of June 2021 that got me de-platformed. They colluded to put pressure on Twitter and Facebook, and had me smeared globally. That’s what happens to dissidents in an advanced tyranny.
One interesting thing I relearned while researching that chapter—“Dear Conservatives, I Apologize”—is legacy media on the Left, CNN and the New York Times, represented citizens entering the capitol as the insurrection, as if to enter is violating some norm and that legislation in Congress only took place when the public couldn’t be part of it.
Historically, the Capitol is called the People’s House, and galleries were built to allow the public to witness the proceedings.
People are allowed to walk peacefully into the Capitol. That was an important lie because, apart from what happened to those people, that lie allowed the narrative to be propagated that half of America was violent and sought to overturn our democracy, and that the people who entered the Capitol represented that half of America.
That story was used to demonize Red America. You may not believe this because you don’t hang out with liberals in New York maybe as much as I did. They thoroughly believed what they were told, that all of Red America wanted to overturn our democratic institutions.
“Don’t kill grandma by hugging her,” was repeated in 152 languages. I had to conclude that what I was seeing was beyond human capabilities. I’m a journalist. You can’t coordinate the same message in 152 languages at the same time with hundreds and hundreds of editors.
It’s a covenant to do certain things: Thou shalt not kill, don’t steal, don’t lie, engage in sexual morality, don’t kill children. Whether we are observant or not, the Judeo-Christian covenant shaped our institutions.
From 2020 on, I saw that covenant vanish. Journalism used to be about truth and facts. Now, it was about lies. Hospitals used to be about saving people. Now they were willing to let people die.
Jonathan Cahn’s thesis is that we in the West took our hands away from God. We abandoned our commitment to uphold our end of the Covenant, and all these demons took up residence. God said, “Okay, you want to do it yourselves, do it yourselves.” This is what it looks like, and then these dark forces rushed in.
America and the West lived through something catastrophic that will change its nature if we don’t name what really happened. That’s part of my goal in writing “Facing the Beast.”
And I see a rising across the country, and maybe even across the West; a groundswell of people unwilling to let the darkness prevail—who are creating alternative medical, media, and educational systems and rebuilding America from the ground up. The better angels have an opportunity to remake this country closer to its ideal as a nation of freedom and justice.
