Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson contended that the recent attempted assassination against former president Donald Trump is further evidence of evil forces at work in the United States. “I think what happened on Saturday, the assassination attempt against President Trump, reminded a lot of people or awakened a lot of people to this. There is a spiritual battle underway,” Carlson said at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“There is no logical way to understand what we’re seeing now in temporal terms. You just can’t. These are not political divides. There are forces — and they’re very obvious now, they’ve decided, for whatever reason, to take off the mask — whose only goal is chaos, violence, destruction,” he continued.

According to The Christian Post, Carlson further cautioned that the same dark forces that have animated revolutionary movements in the past are resurfacing again in the U.S., especially against Christianity.

“What group do they dislike most?” he asked. “What group are they absolutely terrified of and hoping to eliminate? Well, it’s Christians. That’s who it is. It’s Christians.”

The former “Fox News” host jokingly said it took him over a decade to realize that and that he came to it “as not a particularly fervent, lifelong Christian.”

“I haven’t spent my life surrounded by plumes of incense deep in prayer. I spent a life in a newsroom saying the F word,” he said, adding that the revolutionary, destructive forces at work in the country today most hate “Christian nationalists and people who pray outside abortion clinics; people who celebrate Easter, not Trans Visibility Day.”

Carlson also implied that a “dark” warmongering attitude is widespread within the Republican Party, hence why many in the GOP hate Trump and have often attempted to subvert him. Additionally, he said that immigration, economic issues, and Trump’s “naughty mouth” are unimportant to his chief Republican opponents, who he claimed simply desire godlike power by perpetuating war.

Moreover, he pointed out how Trump was the first president since Jimmy Carter not to start a new war or escalate a U.S. military conflict, claiming that Trump “has stood in their way.”