I Told Tucker "You Need To Talk To An Exorcist"

Rod Dreher has known Tucker Carlson for years — and long before Tucker told the world a demon physically attacked him, he told Rod. In this conversation, Dreher, the Orthodox Christian writer behind the bestseller Living in Wonder, walks through the full arc: the private confession, his own attempt to help, and the growing fear among people who study spiritual warfare for a living that Carlson is now in real danger.

When Tucker described being mauled in his sleep, Dreher took it seriously enough to connect him with an exorcist — who brought in a second. Tucker refused. He called the idea "too Protestant" and "witchcraft," and said he'd handle it with "just him and the Bible." Not long after came the Fox firing, the new network, and the bookings — Darryl Cooper, then Nick Fuentes — that Dreher publicly objected to, a stand that ended the friendship by text.

Then, from his couch in Budapest, Dreher saw a clip: Tucker describing "evil spirits" in the woods behind his home in Maine, and choosing to hunt there anyway. Dreher reaches for Robert Eggers' 2015 film The Witch to explain what he fears — how proximity to a located evil can work on a proud man until it destroys him and his household. The exorcists who know the case, he says, are "incredibly worried." Their words: "deep, deep danger." And Tucker, Dreher notes, has the ear of the Vice President.

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Rod Dreher's Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age is available now. Read more at his Substack, Rod Dreher's Diary (@roddreher).

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Keywords: Rod Dreher, Tucker Carlson, demon attack, demonic, exorcist, exorcism, spiritual warfare, deliverance, Living in Wonder, Orthodox Christianity, re-enchantment, Christian discernment, Nick Fuentes, Darryl Cooper, JD Vance, The Witch Robert Eggers, Budapest, The Jeremy Boreing Show