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In case you didn\u2019t notice, the Antichrist is back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All right, forgive the hyperbole \u2014 this biblical agent of Satan hasn\u2019t actually<\/em> returned to lead a rebellion against God before Christ\u2019s second coming. But in the year of our Lord 2026, a curious surge in chatter about this herald of the apocalypse seems to be underway.<\/p>\n

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A number of far-right dissidents, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Nick Fuentes, are asking questions about whether President Donald Trump is more than he seems. \u201cCould this be the Antichrist?\u201d Tucker Carlson asked on his podcast. \u201cWell, who knows?\u201d It didn\u2019t help when Trump posted an AI-slop image of himself as the Messiah, which he later claimed was meant to be a doctor. \u201cNot saying Trump is the Antichrist,\u201d conservative Rod Dreher told the Wall Street Journal. \u201cBut he\u2019s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The antichrist talk is also taking off in the politics-adjacent tech world in a different context, where Palantir founder and conservative tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been leading a series of closed-door lectures on the Antichrist (and garnering the disapproving attention of the Vatican). In a wild coincidence, his hypothetical Antichrist appears to be anti-tech people who annoy him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s the most the end times have saturated our political culture since the aughts, when the new millennium brought an explosion of renewed interest, spurred on by the apocalyptic Left Behind<\/em> novels and related Christian media depicting a \u201crealistic\u201d modern Antichrist. Later on, former President Barack Obama became a fixation of related theories on the religious right depicting him as the Antichrist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Scholars and experts on biblical writing and apocalyptic history say there\u2019s a long history of perceived antichrist figures popping up in moments of collective crisis or despair in the western world. And there are certain traits that tend to supercharge these narratives \u2014 the presence of war (especially in the Middle East), economic or public health crises, political or societal instability, and the appearance of an unusually charismatic leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Needless to say, we were probably due for a revival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet just like in past periods of panic and perturbation over the centuries, there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty in these discussions over who or what the Antichrist is, when this figure is to return, or even if this biblical character is supposed to be a real thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So it\u2019s a good time to ask: Where did the idea of the Antichrist come from in the first place? How does it tend to manifest in politics? And what is it about our current moment that\u2019s driving such renewed interest in the concept?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The biblical roots of the Antichrist<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s probably helpful to start off with actually defining what the Antichrist is, and what the signs that believers in his arrival actually are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Definitions vary across various Christian denominations and traditions, but they are rooted in the interpretation of a relatively small number of biblical passages that either use this term explicitly or get linked to the same figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Surprisingly, the term \u201cantichrist\u201d only appears five times in the New Testament. These explicit mentions in the letters of the disciple John refer to \u201cdeceivers\u201d who come to confuse Christians by denying Jesus Christ\u2019s divinity and preaching other heresies. Scripture suggests that there can be (and have been) multiple antichrists, whose aim is to derail the faithful from achieving salvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Whether this is a symbolic or literal figure depends on Christian traditions, and how close you link these passages to references to other beasts and deceivers written about in other parts of the New Testament. For example: The apostle Paul writes of a \u201cman of lawlessness\u201d in his second letter to the Thessalonians, who \u201cwill oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God\u2019s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then you have horror-movie, apocalyptic visions from the Book of Revelations about the chaotic period before the second coming of Christ, which includes reference to a seven-headed \u201cbeast coming out of the sea,\u201d who bears a fatal wound, \u201cbut the fatal wound had been healed.\u201d This beast is empowered by a dragon, understood to be Satan, and the people of the world stand in awe and worship this beast, asking \u201cWho is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Catholics and mainline Protestants have less literal interpretations of these passages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many mainline Protestant denominations teach that these figures are more symbolic manifestations of unholy traits and un-Christianlike beliefs and behavior, not an actual being who is due to appear at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Catholics are called to view the \u201cantichrist\u201d as a period of intense prosecution, testing of the church, and the rise of false prophets; \u201ca final trial\u201d before Christ returns in which believers face a \u201csupreme religious deception\u201d and are faced with a choice to believe in a \u201cpseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah\u201d or stay true to their faith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the Catholic Church also cautions against believing claims that an antichrist figure is imminently coming. And the explicit characters in the Bible have been understood by many scholars to be references to Roman leaders who persecuted Christians during early church history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More fundamentalist and evangelical believers, however, view all these textual clues as actual signposts and steps in the process toward the apocalypse and Christ\u2019s return. That\u2019s been the main entry point for the Antichrist\u2019s place in American culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The long history of the Antichrist in the Western imagination<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Because of the detail and color of these symbols and characters in the Bible, it has been enticing for believers and readers to draw firm connections between the text and the real world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey read the Bible like it\u2019s a secret code book, and that if they can unlock the code, then they can understand what\u2019s going to happen in the end times,\u201d Matthew A. Sutton, a historian of American apocalypticism at Washington State University, told me. \u201cIt\u2019s a very modern way to read the Bible compared to what you would\u2019ve seen through much of church history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sutton and other historians differentiate between the modern (and by that they mean in the last century) antichrist discourse and historical beliefs. But there tend to be some preconditions necessary for this chatter to rise that go back even further in time: war in the Middle East, the rise of charismatic or terrifying leaders, and environmental, political, or economic catastrophe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For example, the turn of the first millennium was one of the earliest surges in interest in the figure of the Antichrist, <\/strong>given explicit references in the Bible to thousand-year periods (as in Christ\u2019s thousand-year kingdom on Earth, from the Book of Revelations) and the violent and unstable nature of life in the early Middle Ages, Brett Whalen, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told me. In the same century, the First Crusade sparked another of these waves, as crusaders captured Jerusalem from Islamic rule. And the Middle Ages were rife with antichrist talk, primarily by critics of the papacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou can always call the pope \u2018Antichrist,\u2019\u201d Whalen said. \u201cHistorically, they\u2019re probably the No. 1 candidate for being Antichrist, or kings or emperors. You had a limited cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Various secular rulers have been labeled as such too: Frederick II, a Holy Roman emperor around the turn of the 12th century, was called Antichrist by the pope with whom he regularly feuded. The Muslim sultan Saladin, who retook Jerusalem around this time, was similarly described as such.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMartin Luther was called Antichrist when the Protestant Reformation happened,\u201d Whalen said. \u201cSo wars, political changes, religious revolutions, and the rise and fall of empires \u2014 these sorts of political and religious events can create a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What makes modern iterations of the Antichrist different<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So how did these historical waves of antichrist panic lead us to Donald Trump and Peter Thiel?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blame America, in this case. In the modern era, antichrists became democratized, as US-based evangelical movements picked up steam, literal readings of the Bible spread, and end-times theories were solidified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cObsessing over everyday news and trying to align that with biblical prophecy \u2014 that is a modern American phenomenon,\u201d Sutton told me. \u201cAnd by modern, that begins in the 1880s, 1890s, and that really is what gives birth to fundamentalism, [another] uniquely American phenomenon. And then fundamentalism morphs into today\u2019s evangelicalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Certainly, the news seemed to confirm their suspicions: Even for secular Americans, it\u2019s easy to feel like a particular moment is a time of struggle, or that we\u2019re headed toward some violent catharsis, or are being engulfed by a personality cult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And the 20th century, marked by two World Wars, the rise and fall of new totalitarian governments, and the threat of nuclear annihilation, was especially fertile ground for this kind of thinking. Figures like Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin were all labeled Antichrists; President Franklin D. Roosevelt also faced accusations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the postwar period, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was another crucial development in today\u2019s antichrist theology. Many of the apocalyptic biblical stories center on the Holy Land, the return of Jewish people to it, and a period of tribulation for them; there, this antichrist figure will allow the Jewish people to rebuild a temple, then betray them, demand worship, and assemble global armies under his command for a final battle in the valley of Armageddon (which historically is located in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, these narratives have become central to dispensationalist evangelical theology: Israel\u2019s unity and existence must be preserved in order for these phases to take shape, and for the eventual rapture to occur. Consequently, \u201canything that involves Israel or the Middle East is going to trigger speculation\u201d of end-times prophesies, Sutton said, especially when there\u2019s instability or war in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These literal biblical interpretations also suggest a period of global domination by the Antichrist \u2014 governments submit to this figure and turn over their armies to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPart of what has driven concerns about the Antichrist is the idea that they\u2019re going to sacrifice American sovereignty through a global organization,\u201d Sutton said. \u201cAnd so this is why religious conservatives are so suspicious of groups like NATO and especially the United Nations, because they believe ultimately we\u2019re moving towards one world government, and it\u2019s the Antichrist. He\u2019s going to prevail over that one world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Combined with the expectation that the antichrist figure will be a charismatic leader, you get the more recent panics: Saddam Hussein faced antichrist allegations during the Gulf War. Hillary Clinton was called the Antichrist. But nobody drew more scrutiny in recent times than Barack Obama, whose meteoric political rise on a message of greater international cooperation and outreach to the Muslim world made him a magnet for antichrist talk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This speculation broke into the mainstream in 2008, when some Democrats accused former Sen. John McCain\u2019s presidential campaign of deliberately referencing it with a web video mocking Obama\u2019s celebrity by depicting him as a Moses-like religious figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The McCain campaign denied it was a dogwhistle, but the discussion around the topic grew so heated that Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, co-authors of the Left Behind<\/em> novels about the Antichrist, stepped in to publicly reassure their Christian readers that Obama was not<\/em> the figure they had in mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Which brings us to 2026. The latest panics fit neatly into these traditions: Peter Thiel\u2019s antichrist lectures seem to boil down to a fear over technological stagnation and growing opposition to artificial intelligence. He warns that efforts to regulate AI, in the name of fighting some future existential risk, could bring about the conditions for a central power to seize global authoritarian control \u2014 the Antichrist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sutton, who has written about these lectures before, argues that it\u2019s not the most novel approach, but it is dangerous: \u201cDressing political theory in apocalyptic robes carries risks. When powerful actors reframe ordinary policy debates such as about guardrails for AI as a battle against the antichrist, they raise anxieties, delegitimize compromise and insinuate that democratic deliberation is spiritually suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The recent Trump panic, however, is<\/em> a bit of an inversion: Trump is typically championed by the same right-wing religious figures who are most attuned to literal interpretations of the Antichrist and the end times. It\u2019s surprising that figures like Carlson and Fuentes would break the seal on this front. But, historically speaking, Trump also fits the mold of prior antichrist hunts: He is surely a charismatic leader; he\u2019s launched civilizational wars in the Middle East; he\u2019s survived assassination attempts, mimicking the fatal, but healed, wound of the beast of Revelations; and he\u2019s blasphemed and used the trappings of religion to advance his personal brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But to focus on any one person or movement as antichrist is to miss the broader point, Robert Fuller, a religious studies professor at Bradley University, told me. The concept, applied politically, risks taking an already polarized time and raising the stakes of elections and policy debates even further.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis image sustains a crisis mentality,\u201d Fuller said. \u201cIt summons out hatred and resentment that can fuel long-term grudges. It makes compromise unthinkable since no one compromises with the devil. It justifies hatred and violence, recasting these traits as virtues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In that vein, it\u2019s inevitable that antichrist narratives persist; such a flexible idea can adapt regardless of century. It\u2019s likely we\u2019ll see many recurring returns of the Antichrist, at least until the world does<\/em> actually end.<\/p>\n

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