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.
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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.
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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.
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"...to introduce to you a new concept. It's called the Masonic Calling. Each of these individuals, Trump, the Ayatollah, and Netanyahu, see themselves as..."
"...them um not fame not power um nothing but this mesonic calling that's what's really um driving them so let me explain what this..."
"...can understand how energized how motivated how powerful people with the messianic calling feels the classic example is Trump right so Trump during the..."
"and do another rally and then he would do another rally in front of 50,000 people and then he will watch the news and..."
"filled with the Messianic calling is that they are absolutely fearless they know that because God has chosen them God will protect them and..."
"...they're eternal and they're invincible the third characteristic of people with messianic calling is the persecution complex the idea is how do you know..."
"Trump's orders in fact you had one general Mark Milley who told the Chinese government don't listen to Trump he's not really in charge..."
"him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at..."
"feels he's persecuted, but that's good for him, that energizes him because it makes him feel that God is testing him. God wants to..."
"feels as though the moment he's been waiting for all his life, the moment he's dreamt of all his life, the opportunity to kill..."
"must unite the Muslim world and have them fight on the side of good against the great evil, the great Satan, which is the..."
"Benjamin Netanyahu, like many, many Israelis, they believed that the golden age of the Jewish people was Kingdom of David, which occurred about 3,000..."
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