“Jesus, unlike all the other prophets, simply did not have time during his earthly life to accumulate enough political power to wield violence in God’s name. Hence the “nice” image of Jesus”
No, Jesus was the Christ; the Messiah. God incarnate. Being God, He did not need ‘time’ to accrue political power from men - he possessed all the power necessary to do whatever He wanted, including the power to forgive sins.
Jesus acknowledges he did not have political power during his first coming
Luke 19:27 But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence.
Jesus will come back as King of mankind and destroy his enemies. He did not have political power of any kind, besides the support of the poor and oppressed in his first coming