Messianic calling

Jiang's term for a leader's belief that he is chosen by God to save his people or the world, making ordinary incentives secondary.

Jiang's possible explanation that Trump may understand his return to power as a divine call to serve a mission.

Jiang uses the phrase for Trump's self-understanding as a divinely protected figure with a mission against the deep state.

Jiang's idea that some rulers sincerely believe they are chosen for a civilizational mission and therefore must keep ruling. Jiang's label for the drive he believes animates world-historical leaders who see themselves as chosen to reorder history.

He models Trump, the Ayatollah, and Netanyahu as leaders driven by messianic calling rather than ordinary fame or power: each imagines himself as a chosen historical figure on a mission from God.

Messianic calling produces what Jiang calls divine energy: a chosen person feels multiplied strength, courage, and stamina because the mission itself supplies power.

Jiang's second characteristic of messianic calling is absolute fearlessness: the chosen person believes God protects him, or that death makes him an elect martyr whose followers continue the mission.

Jiang says persecution intensifies messianic faith: Trump interprets opposition from generals, media, courts, and foreign elites as a divine test that strengthens his mission.

Netanyahu's corruption jeopardy and divided country are framed as persecution that, in Jiang's model, confirms God's favor and supplies strength for his divine mission.

The Ayatollah's imagined mission is to lure the United States into Iran and kill the great Satan, thereby freeing his people and saving the world.

Jiang says Netanyahu's mission is a restoration of the Kingdom of David: Israel as free, independent, unified, and supreme in the Middle East.

He previews Isaac Newton as a prophetic figure with a messianic calling to understand God's mind and prepare for Jesus's return, making Newton central to the next stage of the argument.