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To be sure, there are a lot of reasons: Our country has a past of systemic racism, weâve been rocked by three recessions, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic took its pound of flesh (and patience) from us all. These and a host of others catapulted an unlikely candidate into the presidency not once, but twice (three times, if you ask him).(Things Writers Should Know.)Among those reasons, I wouldnât have expected to find that people believe in political demons. As a professor at a small liberal arts college who teaches a mix of the medieval and the modern, I tended to think that demons belonged more to the former than the latter. But as the 2024 election cycle picked up, I started finding more mentions of peopleâs ardent belief in demons and their supposed behind-the-scenes political machinations.That discovery drove me to write Devils of Democracy: Americaâs Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today (Broadleaf Books, 2026), and if youâre interested in the political ship being righted, there are some things you need to know.Itâs N
31ot a MetaphorLetâs get this one out of the way: When people talk about demons, it can be a metaphor. We can âwrestle with our inner demons,â âexorcise bad habits,â or feel âpossessedâ by certain states of mind. Our anger and rage, hatred and prejudice, self-doubt and pain can all be discussed metaphorically using the language of demons.That is not what many in the United States are doing, but they will hide behind this conventional language. When people refer to âdemonicâ Democrats or the âprincipalitiesâ that control Washington, DC, it can be an easy pivot to suggest that they were speaking in metaphor.But for those who engage in this kind of double-talk, demons are very real entities. For instance, the much discussed âSeven Mountain Mandateâ is a political demonology. When people like the late Charlie Kirk, Trumpâs spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain, or the politically influential televangelist Lance Wallnau talk about âreclaiming mountains,â âoccupyingâ areas of influence, or exerting âdominionâ they are talking about reclaiming centers of human activity from the demonic forces that they believe occupied them.Dominion or BustThat last termâdominionâis also on a lot of peopleâs minds these days. If it sounds ominous, it should. The term starts to emerge from a variety of different sources in the 1980s as a way to package a variety of different political-theological positions. The movement gets its name from Genesis 1:28, where God blesses humankind with âdominion⦠over every living thing.âMembers of this thought-world imagine that God is commanding Christians to subdue the earth according to their theology, a task which will require them to take over governments. As one of the most influential voices I know, C. Peter Wagner, wrote about it in his work Dominion!, this need not be an aggressive takeover. Instead, it only requires convincing a determined group of voters that their way is right. The rest will fall in line.Moreover, this takeover is necessary since Wagner claims in Dominion! that âSatan has polluted the land and cursed it. Satan has deployed high-ranking demonic powers to darken the spiritual atmosphere over society and to block the freedom of heaven flowing to earthâ (206-7). To take back the United States, those who agree with Wagner must âDo whatever it takes!â (158).There Is No SeparationâBut what about the separation of church and state?â some might ask. For many in the movements I study, this is an element of the United States that must be undone. Many of them overlap with the Christian Nationalist movement and believe that the United States was founded on âChristian principles.â They imagine a shining golden age of American history when everyone was devoutly Christian, a kind of holy past that warrants Godâs blessing of the coming United States. They not only fail to realize how nebulous âChristian principlesâ actually are (âArenât Christian principles any principles we agree with?â), but also that the Bible represented an easily recognizable repository of anecdotes, ones that could have both religious and secular meanings.For them, the separation of Church and State is a mistake. According to them, America is fundamentally a âChristian nation.â As Lance Wallnau, the aforementioned televangelist and self-described Christian nationalist, wrote in his 2016 book Godâs Chaos Candidate, âAmerica plays a huge role in the world as a force for freedom and the preaching of the Gospel. So much so that Satan considers taking this nation down to be his number one priority. With us removed, hell can advance against the church globallyâ (143). If you ardently believe such a thing, itâs a hop, skip, and a jump to the idea that the separation of Church and State is not only a mistake but an idea that is poisoning the nation.It Is About the âOtherâBut thatâs not the only poison. Ideas about demons donât emerge from nowhere: They coalesce around the things that make us most uncomfortable, the things we feel are most different from ourselves or our in-group. Race, sexuality, gender roles, class disparity, political affiliations, fears: when any of these things donât align with a groupâs idea of âself,â they come to represent the âother.â
31 Since we tend to consider ourselves and our groups âgood,â it becomes easy to push these representations of the other so far outside of the human that they can become enshrouded in demonic form.In my book I talk about âthe Jezebel Spirit,â a being that is often painted by believers to be an ancient demon. In actuality, no one appears to mention it before evangelicals threw their political weight behind pro-life movements in the 80s. Since then, the Jezebel Spirit has continued to demonize pro-choice stances, but has also mutated to represent crises of masculinity, women rising to political power, non-heteronormative relationships, and trans men and women.If we use the idea of the Other here, then its sudden appearance and transformation make sense: The Jezebel Spirit emerges to represent a political stance that evangelicals had rejected, one created along sexual themes. As more sexual issues emerged for the movement to reject, the Jezebel Spiritâs âportfolioâ simply expanded into similar areas.It Happened Before, and It Will Happen AgainItâs not the first time the idea of political demons has plagued the United States. While I think itâs important for us to understand the present-day use of demons in politics, itâs equally important to realize that Americans have done this from before America really existed to today. From the Papal Beast of the Revolutionary War and a supposed shadowy conspiracy of demon-worshipping Spiritualists gathered around Lincoln, to the Satanic Panic of the 80s when the United States entered a politically tough time, Americans tend to think with demons.That means two things. First, we canât assume that because some Americans are thinking with demons that we have entered an unprecedented time in American politics. That only drives more extreme political thinking on both sides of the aisles. Second, this wonât be the last time demons enter politics.Forewarned is forearmed.Check out Michael E. Heyes' Devils of Democracy here:Bookshop | Amazon(WD uses affiliate links)"}]</script>
31<article class="MuiBox-root css-0"><div class="MuiBox-root css-113vqb4"><div class="MuiBox-root css-1d29nfv"><div class="MuiBox-root css-usir18"><div class="MuiBox-root css-0"><div class="MuiBox-root css-18165vw"><nav class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 MuiBreadcrumbs-root css-1jqiv4o" aria-label="breadcrumb"><ol class="MuiBreadcrumbs-ol css-nhb8h9"><li class="MuiBreadcrumbs-li"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body2 MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineHover css-1xp550t" href="/">Home</a></li><li aria-hidden="true" class="MuiBreadcrumbs-separator css-3mf706">/</li><li class="MuiBreadcrumbs-li"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body2 MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineHover css-1xp550t" href="/be-inspired">Be Inspired</a></li><li aria-hidden="true" class="MuiBreadcrumbs-separator css-3mf706">/</li><li class="MuiBreadcrumbs-li"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body2 MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineHover css-1xp550t" href="/be-inspired/the-writers-life">The Writer's Life</a></li></ol></nav><div class="MuiBox-root css-d892od"><div><a class="MuiButtonBase-root MuiButton-root MuiButton-contained MuiButton-containedPrimary MuiButton-sizeSmall MuiButton-containedSizeSmall MuiButton-disableElevation css-3nrls7" tabindex="0" type="button" href="/be-inspired/the-writers-life">The Writer's Life</a></div><h1 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h1 css-1kzojl1">5 Things Writers Should Know About the Language of Demons, Evil, and âThe Enemyâ in Politics</h1><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h6 css-yraq5j">Author and professor Michael E. Heyes shares five things writers should know about the language of demons, evil, and âthe enemyâ in politics. 32</h2><div class="MuiBox-root css-0"><div class="MuiBox-root css-18vbn7a"><h6 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle2 css-1e9lihh"><div class="MuiBox-root css-1t075fi"><div class="MuiBox-root css-0"><div class="MuiAvatarGroup-root css-1mceequ"><div class="MuiAvatar-root MuiAvatar-circular MuiAvatarGroup-avatar css-bdwx23"><img alt="Michael E. Heyes" src="https://www.writersdigest.com/uploads/2026/09/Michael-E-Heyes_no-photo-credit-e1789759946731.jpg?auto=webp" class="MuiAvatar-img css-1hy9t21"/></div></div></div><div class="MuiBox-root css-kow1oy"><div class="MuiBox-root css-1baulvz"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineHover css-1u3ad7o" href="/author/michael-e-heyes">Michael E. Heyes</a></div></div></div></h6><time class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-caption css-1b9ph23" dateTime="2026-09-20T08:48:39">Updated Sep 20, 2026 8:48 AM EDT</time></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="MuiBox-root css-1td0nkt"><div class="MuiBox-root css-ag3gjr"><div class="MuiBox-root css-13kgfem"><div class="MuiBox-root css-8oye0f"><main class="MuiBox-root css-0"><div class="MuiBox-root css-1n8lbbg"><div class="MuiBox-root css-s2uf1z"><div><button class="MuiButtonBase-root MuiButton-root MuiButton-contained MuiButton-containedPrimary MuiButton-sizeMedium MuiButton-containedSizeMedium MuiButton-disableElevation css-7fyt50" tabindex="0" type="button">Share this story<span class="MuiButton-endIcon MuiButton-iconSizeMedium css-pt151d"><svg class="MuiSvgIcon-root MuiSvgIcon-fontSizeMedium css-vubbuv" focusable="false" aria-hidden="true" viewBox="0 0 24 24" data-testid="IosShareIcon"><path d="m16 5-1.42 1.42-1.59-1.59V16h-1.98V4.83L9.42 6.42 8 5l4-4zm4 5v11c0 1.1-.9 2-2 2H6c-1.11 0-2-.9-2-2V10c0-1.11.89-2 2-2h3v2H6v11h12V10h-3V8h3c1.1 0 2 .89 2 2"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><div class="MuiBox-root css-91lecw" data-id="page-content" data-og-area="article-blocks"><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="1" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Like a lot of Americans these days, I often wonder how we got to where we are politically. To be sure, there are a lot of reasons: Our country has a past of systemic racism, weâve been rocked by three recessions, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic took its pound of flesh (and patience) from us all. These and a host of others catapulted an unlikely candidate into the presidency not once, but twice (three times, if you ask him).</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="2" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>(<a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/tag/things-writers-should-know">Things Writers Should Know</a>.)</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="3" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Among those reasons, I wouldnât have expected to find that people believe in political demons. As a professor at a small liberal arts college who teaches a mix of the medieval and the modern, I tended to think that demons belonged more to the former than the latter. But as the 2024 election cycle picked up, I started finding more mentions of peopleâs ardent belief in demons and their supposed behind-the-scenes political machinations.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="4" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>That discovery drove me to write <a href="https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798341900936/Devils-of-Democracy"><em>Devils of Democracy: Americaâs Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today</em></a> (Broadleaf Books, 2026), and if youâre interested in the political ship being righted, there are some things you need to know.</p></div><figure class="image MuiBox-root css-0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="1" data-og-block-type="core/image"><div class="MuiBox-root css-5r1byp"><div class="MuiBox-root css-1gr2rf2"><div class="MuiBox-root css-o5pcgm"><span class="" style="display:inline-block"></span></div></div></div></figure><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-vidvr0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="1" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-it-s-not-a-metaphor"><strong>Itâs Not a Metaphor</strong></h2><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="5" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Letâs get this one out of the way: When people talk about demons, it <em>can</em> be a metaphor. We can âwrestle with our inner demons,â âexorcise bad habits,â or feel âpossessedâ by certain states of mind. Our anger and rage, hatred and prejudice, self-doubt and pain can all be discussed metaphorically using the language of demons.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="6" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>That is not what many in the United States are doing, but they will hide behind this conventional language. When people refer to âdemonicâ Democrats or the âprincipalitiesâ that control Washington, DC, it can be an easy pivot to suggest that they were speaking in metaphor.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="7" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>But for those who engage in this kind of double-talk, demons are very real entities. For instance, the much discussed âSeven Mountain Mandateâ is a political demonology. When people like the late Charlie Kirk, Trumpâs spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain, or the politically influential televangelist Lance Wallnau talk about âreclaiming mountains,â âoccupyingâ areas of influence, or exerting âdominionâ they are talking about reclaiming centers of human activity from the demonic forces that they believe occupied them.</p></div><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-vidvr0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="2" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-dominion-or-bust"><strong>Dominion or Bust</strong></h2><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="8" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>That last termâdominionâis also on a lot of peopleâs minds these days. If it sounds ominous, it should. The term starts to emerge from a variety of different sources in the 1980s as a way to package a variety of different political-theological positions. The movement gets its name from Genesis 1:28, where God blesses humankind with âdominion⦠over every living thing.â </p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="9" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Members of this thought-world imagine that God is commanding Christians to subdue the earth according to their theology, a task which will require them to take over governments. As one of the most influential voices I know, C. Peter Wagner, wrote about it in his work <em>Dominion!</em>, this need not be an aggressive takeover. Instead, it only requires convincing a determined group of voters that their way is right. The rest will fall in line. </p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="10" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Moreover, this takeover is necessary since Wagner claims in <em>Dominion! </em>that âSatan has polluted the land and cursed it. Satan has deployed high-ranking demonic powers to darken the spiritual atmosphere over society and to block the freedom of heaven flowing to earthâ (206-7). To take back the United States, those who agree with Wagner must âDo whatever it takes!â (158).</p></div><figure class="image MuiBox-root css-0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="2" data-og-block-type="core/image"><div class="MuiBox-root css-5r1byp"><div class="MuiBox-root css-6fdfy9"><a target="_self" href="https://www.writersdigest.com/members"><div class="MuiBox-root css-o5pcgm"><span class="" style="display:inline-block"></span></div></a></div></div></figure><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-vidvr0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="3" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-there-is-no-separation"><strong>There Is No Separation</strong></h2><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="11" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>âBut what about the separation of church and state?â some might ask. For many in the movements I study, this is an element of the United States that must be undone. Many of them overlap with the Christian Nationalist movement and believe that the United States was founded on âChristian principles.â They imagine a shining golden age of American history when everyone was devoutly Christian, a kind of holy past that warrants Godâs blessing of the coming United States. They not only fail to realize how nebulous âChristian principlesâ actually are (âArenât Christian principles any principles we agree with?â), but also that the Bible represented an easily recognizable repository of anecdotes, ones that could have both religious and secular meanings.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="12" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>For them, the separation of Church and State is a mistake. According to them, America is fundamentally a âChristian nation.â As Lance Wallnau, the aforementioned televangelist and self-described Christian nationalist, wrote in his 2016 book <em>Godâs Chaos Candidate</em>, âAmerica plays a huge role in the world as a force for freedom and the preaching of the Gospel. So much so that Satan considers taking this nation down to be his number one priority. With us removed, hell can advance against the church globallyâ (143). If you ardently believe such a thing, itâs a hop, skip, and a jump to the idea that the separation of Church and State is not only a mistake but an idea that is poisoning the nation.</p></div><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-vidvr0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="4" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-it-is-about-the-other"><strong>It Is About the âOtherâ</strong></h2><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="13" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>But thatâs not the only poison. Ideas about demons donât emerge from nowhere: They coalesce around the things that make us most uncomfortable, the things we feel are most different from ourselves or our in-group. Race, sexuality, gender roles, class disparity, political affiliations, fears: when any of these things donât align with a groupâs idea of âself,â they come to represent the âother.â
32 Since we tend to consider ourselves and our groups âgood,â it becomes easy to push these representations of the other so far outside of the human that they can become enshrouded in demonic form.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="14" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>In my book I talk about âthe Jezebel Spirit,â a being that is often painted by believers to be an ancient demon. In actuality, no one appears to mention it before evangelicals threw their political weight behind pro-life movements in the 80s. Since then, the Jezebel Spirit has continued to demonize pro-choice stances, but has also mutated to represent crises of masculinity, women rising to political power, non-heteronormative relationships, and trans men and women. </p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="15" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>If we use the idea of the Other here, then its sudden appearance and transformation make sense: The Jezebel Spirit emerges to represent a political stance that evangelicals had rejected, one created along sexual themes. As more sexual issues emerged for the movement to reject, the Jezebel Spiritâs âportfolioâ simply expanded into similar areas.</p></div><h2 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-vidvr0" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="5" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-it-happened-before-and-it-will-happen-again"><strong>It Happened Before, and It Will Happen Again</strong></h2><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="16" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Itâs not the first time the idea of political demons has plagued the United States. While I think itâs important for us to understand the present-day use of demons in politics, itâs equally important to realize that Americans have done this from before America really existed to today. From the Papal Beast of the Revolutionary War and a supposed shadowy conspiracy of demon-worshipping Spiritualists gathered around Lincoln, to the Satanic Panic of the 80s when the United States entered a politically tough time, Americans tend to think with demons.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="17" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>That means two things. First, we canât assume that because some Americans are thinking with demons that we have entered an unprecedented time in American politics. That only drives more extreme political thinking on both sides of the aisles. Second, this wonât be the last time demons enter politics.</p></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-6eby3y" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="18" data-og-block-type="core/paragraph" data-rawhtml="1"><p>Forewarned is forearmed.</p></div><h4 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1hs05hs" data-og-block-area="article-blocks" data-og-block-nth="6" data-og-block-type="core/heading" data-rawhtml="1" id="h-check-out-michael-e-heyes-devils-of-democracy-here"><strong>Check out Michael E. 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Heyes" src="https://www.writersdigest.com/uploads/2026/09/Michael-E-Heyes_no-photo-credit-e1789759946731.jpg?auto=webp" class="MuiAvatar-img css-1hy9t21"/></div><div class="MuiBox-root css-kulbaa"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineHover css-1018ihs" href="/author/michael-e-heyes">Michael E. Heyes</a><span class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-overline css-1qw0enu">Author</span></div></div><div><div class="css-146hop3"></div></div></div><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body2 css-15fmzj7">Michael E. Heyes is the author of Devils of Democracy: Americaâs Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today (Broadleaf Books, 2026). He is also an associate professor and chair in the Department of Religion at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He received an MA in comparative religion from the University of Washington and a PhD in the history of Christianity from Rice University. He is the author of the monographs Margaretâs Monsters and Demons in the USA; an editor of the online, open-access Journal of Gods and Monsters (Texas State University); and the editor of Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States. 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When people refer to âdemonicâ Democrats or the âprincipalitiesâ that control Washington, DC, it can be an easy pivot to suggest that they were speaking in metaphor.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":8,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"But for those who engage in this kind of double-talk, demons are very real entities. For instance, the much discussed \\u201cSeven Mountain Mandate\\u201d is a political demonology. When people like the late Charlie Kirk, Trump\\u2019s spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain, or the politically influential televangelist Lance Wallnau talk about \\u201creclaiming mountains,\\u201d \\u201coccupying\\u201d areas of influence, or exerting \\u201cdominion\\u201d they are talking about reclaiming centers of human activity from the demonic forces that they believe occupied them.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eBut for those who engage in this kind of double-talk, demons are very real entities. For instance, the much discussed âSeven Mountain Mandateâ is a political demonology. When people like the late Charlie Kirk, Trumpâs spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain, or the politically influential televangelist Lance Wallnau talk about âreclaiming mountains,â âoccupyingâ areas of influence, or exerting âdominionâ they are talking about reclaiming centers of human activity from the demonic forces that they believe occupied them.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/heading","order":9,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\u003cstrong\u003eDominion or Bust\u003c\\/strong\u003e\",\"level\":2,\"anchor\":\"h-dominion-or-bust\"}","originalContent":"\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dominion-or-bust\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDominion or Bust\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":10,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"That last term\\u2014dominion\\u2014is also on a lot of people\\u2019s minds these days. If it sounds ominous, it should. The term starts to emerge from a variety of different sources in the 1980s as a way to package a variety of different political-theological positions. The movement gets its name from Genesis 1:28, where God blesses humankind with \\u201cdominion\\u2026 over every living thing.\\u201d\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eThat last termâdominionâis also on a lot of peopleâs minds these days. If it sounds ominous, it should. The term starts to emerge from a variety of different sources in the 1980s as a way to package a variety of different political-theological positions. The movement gets its name from Genesis 1:28, where God blesses humankind with âdominion⦠over every living thing.â \u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":11,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"Members of this thought-world imagine that God is commanding Christians to subdue the earth according to their theology, a task which will require them to take over governments. As one of the most influential voices I know, C. Peter Wagner, wrote about it in his work \u003cem\u003eDominion!\u003c\\/em\u003e, this need not be an aggressive takeover. Instead, it only requires convincing a determined group of voters that their way is right. The rest will fall in line.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eMembers of this thought-world imagine that God is commanding Christians to subdue the earth according to their theology, a task which will require them to take over governments. As one of the most influential voices I know, C. Peter Wagner, wrote about it in his work \u003cem\u003eDominion!\u003c/em\u003e, this need not be an aggressive takeover. Instead, it only requires convincing a determined group of voters that their way is right. The rest will fall in line. \u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":12,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"Moreover, this takeover is necessary since Wagner claims in \u003cem\u003eDominion! \u003c\\/em\u003ethat \\u201cSatan has polluted the land and cursed it. Satan has deployed high-ranking demonic powers to darken the spiritual atmosphere over society and to block the freedom of heaven flowing to earth\\u201d (206-7). To take back the United States, those who agree with Wagner must \\u201cDo whatever it takes!\\u201d (158).\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eMoreover, this takeover is necessary since Wagner claims in \u003cem\u003eDominion! \u003c/em\u003ethat âSatan has polluted the land and cursed it. Satan has deployed high-ranking demonic powers to darken the spiritual atmosphere over society and to block the freedom of heaven flowing to earthâ (206-7). To take back the United States, those who agree with Wagner must âDo whatever it takes!â (158).\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/image","order":13,"attributesJSON":"{\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/www.writersdigest.com\\/uploads\\/2025\\/09\\/PROMO-1450_WDG_MembershipOnSitePlacements_600x300.jpg\",\"alt\":\"VIP Membership Promo\",\"caption\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"href\":\"https:\\/\\/www.writersdigest.com\\/members\",\"rel\":\"\",\"linkClass\":\"\",\"linkTarget\":\"\",\"anchor\":\"\",\"data-dimension\":\"landscape\",\"lightbox\":{\"enabled\":false},\"id\":44222,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\"}","attributes":{"alt":"VIP Membership Promo","caption":"","creditText":null,"height":300,"url":"https://www.writersdigest.com/uploads/2025/09/PROMO-1450_WDG_MembershipOnSitePlacements_600x300.jpg","width":600},"originalContent":"\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" data-dimension=\"landscape\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.writersdigest.com/members\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.writersdigest.com/uploads/2025/09/PROMO-1450_WDG_MembershipOnSitePlacements_600x300.jpg\" alt=\"VIP Membership Promo\" class=\"wp-image-44222\"/\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/figure\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/heading","order":14,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\u003cstrong\u003eThere Is No Separation\u003c\\/strong\u003e\",\"level\":2,\"anchor\":\"h-there-is-no-separation\"}","originalContent":"\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-there-is-no-separation\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere Is No Separation\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":15,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\\u201cBut what about the separation of church and state?\\u201d some might ask. For many in the movements I study, this is an element of the United States that must be undone. Many of them overlap with the Christian Nationalist movement and believe that the United States was founded on \\u201cChristian principles.\\u201d They imagine a shining golden age of American history when everyone was devoutly Christian, a kind of holy past that warrants God\\u2019s blessing of the coming United States. They not only fail to realize how nebulous \\u201cChristian principles\\u201d actually are (\\u201cAren\\u2019t Christian principles any principles we agree with?\\u201d), but also that the Bible represented an easily recognizable repository of anecdotes, ones that could have both religious and secular meanings.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eâBut what about the separation of church and state?â some might ask. For many in the movements I study, this is an element of the United States that must be undone. Many of them overlap with the Christian Nationalist movement and believe that the United States was founded on âChristian principles.â They imagine a shining golden age of American history when everyone was devoutly Christian, a kind of holy past that warrants Godâs blessing of the coming United States. They not only fail to realize how nebulous âChristian principlesâ actually are (âArenât Christian principles any principles we agree with?â), but also that the Bible represented an easily recognizable repository of anecdotes, ones that could have both religious and secular meanings.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":16,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"For them, the separation of Church and State is a mistake. According to them, America is fundamentally a \\u201cChristian nation.\\u201d As Lance Wallnau, the aforementioned televangelist and self-described Christian nationalist, wrote in his 2016 book \u003cem\u003eGod\\u2019s Chaos Candidate\u003c\\/em\u003e, \\u201cAmerica plays a huge role in the world as a force for freedom and the preaching of the Gospel. So much so that Satan considers taking this nation down to be his number one priority. With us removed, hell can advance against the church globally\\u201d (143). If you ardently believe such a thing, it\\u2019s a hop, skip, and a jump to the idea that the separation of Church and State is not only a mistake but an idea that is poisoning the nation.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eFor them, the separation of Church and State is a mistake. According to them, America is fundamentally a âChristian nation.â As Lance Wallnau, the aforementioned televangelist and self-described Christian nationalist, wrote in his 2016 book \u003cem\u003eGodâs Chaos Candidate\u003c/em\u003e, âAmerica plays a huge role in the world as a force for freedom and the preaching of the Gospel. So much so that Satan considers taking this nation down to be his number one priority. With us removed, hell can advance against the church globallyâ (143). If you ardently believe such a thing, itâs a hop, skip, and a jump to the idea that the separation of Church and State is not only a mistake but an idea that is poisoning the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/heading","order":17,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\u003cstrong\u003eIt Is About the \\u201cOther\\u201d\u003c\\/strong\u003e\",\"level\":2,\"anchor\":\"h-it-is-about-the-other\"}","originalContent":"\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-is-about-the-other\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt Is About the âOtherâ\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":18,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"But that\\u2019s not the only poison. Ideas about demons don\\u2019t emerge from nowhere: They coalesce around the things that make us most uncomfortable, the things we feel are most different from ourselves or our in-group. Race, sexuality, gender roles, class disparity, political affiliations, fears: when any of these things don\\u2019t align with a group\\u2019s idea of \\u201cself,\\u201d they come to represent the \\u201cother.\\u201d Since we tend to consider ourselves and our groups \\u201cgood,\\u201d it becomes easy to push these representations of the other so far outside of the human that they can become enshrouded in demonic form.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eBut thatâs not the only poison. Ideas about demons donât emerge from nowhere: They coalesce around the things that make us most uncomfortable, the things we feel are most different from ourselves or our in-group. Race, sexuality, gender roles, class disparity, political affiliations, fears: when any of these things donât align with a groupâs idea of âself,â they come to represent the âother.â
93 Since we tend to consider ourselves and our groups âgood,â it becomes easy to push these representations of the other so far outside of the human that they can become enshrouded in demonic form.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":19,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"In my book I talk about \\u201cthe Jezebel Spirit,\\u201d a being that is often painted by believers to be an ancient demon. In actuality, no one appears to mention it before evangelicals threw their political weight behind pro-life movements in the 80s. Since then, the Jezebel Spirit has continued to demonize pro-choice stances, but has also mutated to represent crises of masculinity, women rising to political power, non-heteronormative relationships, and trans men and women.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eIn my book I talk about âthe Jezebel Spirit,â a being that is often painted by believers to be an ancient demon. In actuality, no one appears to mention it before evangelicals threw their political weight behind pro-life movements in the 80s. Since then, the Jezebel Spirit has continued to demonize pro-choice stances, but has also mutated to represent crises of masculinity, women rising to political power, non-heteronormative relationships, and trans men and women. \u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":20,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"If we use the idea of the Other here, then its sudden appearance and transformation make sense: The Jezebel Spirit emerges to represent a political stance that evangelicals had rejected, one created along sexual themes. As more sexual issues emerged for the movement to reject, the Jezebel Spirit\\u2019s \\u201cportfolio\\u201d simply expanded into similar areas.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eIf we use the idea of the Other here, then its sudden appearance and transformation make sense: The Jezebel Spirit emerges to represent a political stance that evangelicals had rejected, one created along sexual themes. As more sexual issues emerged for the movement to reject, the Jezebel Spiritâs âportfolioâ simply expanded into similar areas.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/heading","order":21,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\u003cstrong\u003eIt Happened Before, and It Will Happen Again\u003c\\/strong\u003e\",\"level\":2,\"anchor\":\"h-it-happened-before-and-it-will-happen-again\"}","originalContent":"\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-happened-before-and-it-will-happen-again\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt Happened Before, and It Will Happen Again\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":22,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"It\\u2019s not the first time the idea of political demons has plagued the United States. While I think it\\u2019s important for us to understand the present-day use of demons in politics, it\\u2019s equally important to realize that Americans have done this from before America really existed to today. From the Papal Beast of the Revolutionary War and a supposed shadowy conspiracy of demon-worshipping Spiritualists gathered around Lincoln, to the Satanic Panic of the 80s when the United States entered a politically tough time, Americans tend to think with demons.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eItâs not the first time the idea of political demons has plagued the United States. While I think itâs important for us to understand the present-day use of demons in politics, itâs equally important to realize that Americans have done this from before America really existed to today. From the Papal Beast of the Revolutionary War and a supposed shadowy conspiracy of demon-worshipping Spiritualists gathered around Lincoln, to the Satanic Panic of the 80s when the United States entered a politically tough time, Americans tend to think with demons.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":23,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"That means two things. First, we can\\u2019t assume that because some Americans are thinking with demons that we have entered an unprecedented time in American politics. That only drives more extreme political thinking on both sides of the aisles. Second, this won\\u2019t be the last time demons enter politics.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eThat means two things. First, we canât assume that because some Americans are thinking with demons that we have entered an unprecedented time in American politics. That only drives more extreme political thinking on both sides of the aisles. Second, this wonât be the last time demons enter politics.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/paragraph","order":24,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"Forewarned is forearmed.\",\"dropCap\":false}","originalContent":"\u003cp\u003eForewarned is forearmed.\u003c/p\u003e","innerBlocks":[]},{"name":"core/heading","order":25,"attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"\u003cstrong\u003eCheck out Michael E. 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