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Tucker Carlson Says He’s Helping Form New Political Party After Ditching GOP, Claims Trump Destroyed America

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The modern American political landscape, long dominated by a rigid two-party duopoly, is facing a seismic tremor from one of the media landscape’s most influential right-wing figures.

In a bombshell interview published on Wednesday, former Fox News anchor and digital media titan Tucker Carlson announced his explicit intention to help build a formidable third political party. The declaration follows his high-profile departure from the Republican fold, culminating in a bitter, public denunciation of President Donald Trump—a man Carlson now accuses of single-handedly destroying his own legacy, the GOP, and the nation itself.

A Systemic Betrayal on War and Wall Street

Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review, Carlson peeled back the curtain on his deepening disillusionment with mainstream American politics. The wide-ranging, often controversial interview touched on several hot-button foreign policy issues, including Carlson’s fierce anti-war stance regarding Iran, his vocal support for the Palestinian cause, and his sharp opposition to the Israeli state—the latter of which was underscored by his recent, highly criticized interview with extremist podcaster Nick Fuentes.

However, the true political lightning bolt struck at the tail end of the conversation, when Carlson was pressed on whether he intended to align his massive media platform with other prominent anti-war voices.

“I do know what really matters is war and finance,” Carlson asserted, delivering a blistering critique of Washington’s bipartisan consensus. “Where does the money come from? Where does it go? And who gets killed? And on those questions, the parties are in lockstep solidarity with each other.”

For Carlson, this shared agenda represents a fundamental breakdown of the democratic process.

“That’s not a democracy. That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken,” he continued. “There’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about. And that’s the lesson of the last two and a half months, to me. If you vote for Trump and you still wind up in a regime-change war—if Chuck Schumer is strongly behind Trump’s foreign policy, which he is—then we need options, or else let’s just give up and be ruled by the most unscrupulous people. And I’m just too young to accept that.”

Building the Machine, Not Running the Race

Despite his vowed commitment to forging a new political vehicle, Carlson was quick to draw a firm boundary regarding his personal ambitions: he has zero desire to see his own name on a ballot.

Recalling a previous media appearance, Carlson joked about how he handles persistent speculation regarding a potential White House bid. “Before I did the [New York] Times interview, someone said to me, ‘They’re going to ask you if you’re running for president,'” he shared. “I was very tempted to say ‘I am running—on the pro-patriarchy ticket.’ Just to make sure I gain no new fans.”

This definitive pivot toward third-party architecture comes just a month after Carlson sent shockwaves through the conservative movement by officially severing his ties with the GOP. In a June podcast interview, he had already signaled that the relationship was dead beyond resurrection, suggesting that Trump was being actively manipulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its powerful domestic lobbying apparatus.

“I would not support the Republican Party,” Carlson said bluntly at the time. “There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party. At this point, how could I, or any American voter, support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States?”

That explosive defection instantly went viral, drawing unexpected applause from the opposite side of the aisle—including from Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign account, known digitally as “Headquarters,” which eagerly amplified the internal conservative chaos.

The Smoldering Bridge to Mar-a-Lago

Carlson’s vitriol marks a stunning, complete collapse of his once-intimate alliance with Donald Trump. The commentator’s influence was once so potent within Trump’s inner circle that he was widely credited as a primary architect behind the selection of J.D. Vance as the vice-presidential running mate during the 2024 campaign.

Today, that bridge is entirely ash. Carlson revealed that he has cut off all communication with the commander-in-chief since the outbreak of the “regime-change war” in Iran.

“I’m not interested in talking to him. I feel sorry for him. He’s not a man in charge of his own life at this point,” Carlson observed with a mix of pity and disdain. “What is it really about, in Trump’s mind? Why did he destroy himself? His administration? His legacy? The Republican Party and America? I don’t know, but maybe someone at [the Columbia Journalism Review] should get on this and find out.”

A Growing Faction of the Fed Up

Whether Carlson’s proclamations represent a solitary ideological crusade or the opening salvo of a coordinated political realignment remains to be seen. However, the timing is deeply conspicuous. Just one day prior to the release of Carlson’s interview, former Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told broadcaster Piers Morgan that she, too, was actively engaged in high-level discussions about launching a third party.

“I think there’s a group of us that, if we decide to align, we could launch a true America-focused party that doesn’t fall into the traps of Democrats and Republicans, but could align some serious players from the right and the left,” Greene revealed.

Greene has been a staunch defender of Carlson’s exodus from the GOP establishment, taking to social media to validate the boiling frustration shared by millions of voters.

“Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party,” Greene wrote. “There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.”

For decades, America’s third-party landscape has been largely defined by perennial also-rans like the Libertarian and Green parties—factions that occasionally morph into election-night spoilers but rarely threaten the established duopoly. In fact, the country hasn’t witnessed a genuinely formidable third-party launch since billionaire Ross Perot founded the Reform Party in the wake of his historic 1992 independent presidential bid, where he captured an astonishing 19 percent of the popular vote.

Yet, achieving escape velocity in American politics is a notoriously uphill battle. The Reform Party’s momentum was severely throttled when the Commission on Presidential Debates altered its qualification rules ahead of the 1996 election—a direct defensive response to how thoroughly Perot had disrupted the debates four years earlier. Despite those institutional hurdles, the party proved it could still strike electoral gold, shocking the political establishment in 1998 by capturing the Minnesota governor’s mansion with colorful former professional wrestler and actor Jesse “The Body” Ventura.

While the Reform Party technical infrastructure survives to this day, its trajectory as a potent national movement came to a grinding halt during the 2000 election cycle. The party was torn apart by fierce internal warfare over the nomination of conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan, a former Republican contender whose ultimate capture of the Reform ticket proved to be a pyrrhic victory that alienated the party’s moderate base.

In a strange twist of political irony, Donald Trump actively explored entering that very same 2000 Reform Party primary before ultimately walking away from the race. He didn’t leave quietly, however, offering a blunt assessment of the man who would eventually top the ticket.

“I’m on the conservative side,” Trump remarked in 1999, distancing himself from the brewing factional war. “But Buchanan is Attila the Hun.”

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