Tucker Carlson has made his choice ...
After years of positioning himself as a voice for conservative frustrations, the onetime Fox News icon declared he will not support Republicans in the midterms.
Instead, Carlson is actively helping build a third party. He calls the current system a uni-partisan arrangement that ignores American families while pursuing foreign conflicts.
This is not patriotic dissent.
It is self-gratifying sabotage dressed up as principle. Republican voters should recognize this and respond decisively.
Carlson's break with the GOP, and the Donald J. Trump administration, centers on the Mideast. He labels Trump's campaign against Iran's Islamist regime, which has America's death as its generations-long foreign policy, “immoral” and even “treasonous.” Carlson claims Republicans now serve Israel and big donors instead of American citizens. He perversely insists true America First means turning away from opposition to Tehran.
This rhetoric fits a pattern of obsessive focus on Israel laced with ugly conspiracy theories.
He has revived old USS Liberty myths against the Jewish state, suggested Jerusalem withheld warnings before 9/11, and portrayed Israel as manipulating U.S. policy through lobbying while protecting itself as an ethnostate. He has called Christian Zionists victims of a “brain virus” and praised an influencer who traffics in Holocaust denial.
His relentless grievance-mongering against Israel reveals the political horseshoe theory in action.
Carlson now aligns with vehement left-wing critics of Israel, hosting notorious individuals like Francesca Albanese, Cenk Uygur, and Glenn Greenwald. These leftists make horrid accusations against the Jewish state which routinely stir up global hatred against it.
In the same interview where Carlson announced his new party, he said that he officially does not care about Hamas.
Carlson framed his budding party as focused purely on American welfare. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this interview was with Columbia University, the Ivy League's foremost bastion of left-wing antisemitism.
Republican voters should recognize Carlson for the viper that he is.
Despite years on air defending Republican causes and praising Trump, his private record tells a different story. He reportedly voted for Kanye West in 2020, and admitted he did not vote for Trump in 2016. Registered as a Democrat for over a decade in Washington, D.C., he privately expressed contempt for presidential election participation. However, his on-air populist conservatism offered no hint of this.
Leaked text messages from his Fox News days show him calling Trump a “demonic force” even as his program bolstered the president.
Furthermore, Tucker Carlson Tonight ran stories highly skeptical of the 2020 election results, despite its host privately dismissing claims of a rigged race.
The facts indicate that Carlson was far from an integrity-driven newsman. He was a cynical showman building and perpetuating a facade.
Carlson's troubled personal background offers context for his behavior, but it does not excuse the damage.
Raised amid domestic turmoil, he was abandoned by a wealthy mother who embraced the California counterculture. She abused drugs, was stripped of custody, and left her children just one dollar each in her will.
Carlson despises his mother's memory.
His other resentments apparently include mourning the decline of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, being sidelined by a disproportionately Jewish elite, getting tripped up by post-1960s immigration, and facing an onslaught of social leftism.
Whatever the exact roots of his rage, the result is that Carlson doggedly attacks the same Make America Great Again movement that gave him prominence. He interviewed the fringe-right, anti-Trump Nick Fuentes, who has praised Joseph Stalin, encouraged his supporters to vote Democrat, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, and called for destroying the GOP.
Carlson treated him with accommodation, not rebuke.
This is not harmless punditry.
Carlson's third-party push, even if it captures only a small slice of the Trump coalition, risks splitting pivotal votes in the 2028 races. A New York Times analysis notes it could draw disaffected conservatives, isolationists, and working-class voters, all of whom loathe pro-Israeli foreign policy.
Needless to say, that would be music to the Democrats' ears.
Republican voters should treat Carlson as the opponent he has become. Do not cling to nostalgia for his Fox News show. Time and leaks revealed that as performance. Judge him by his actions now: savaging the GOP, building a vote-splitting party, and even implicitly urging Vice President J.D. Vance to confront and undermine the Trump administration.
Carlson has said he feels sorry for Vance, trapped in an “impossible situation,” and coyly suggested the vice president should threaten daily press conferences attacking Trump.
This is not advice from a friend. It is poison aimed at the Republican heart.
Vance owes GOP voters straight talk.
He accepted Carlson's political mentorship. Carlson secured for him Trump's 2022 senatorial endorsement. The vice president credited Carlson as part of the winning GOP coalition. Silence or soft appeals to diversity of thought do not suffice. Carlson has called Trump's security decisions treasonous. He has aligned with forces that despise core Republican priorities.
Vance should denounce Carlson by name, without equivocation. Anything less raises serious questions about whose side the vice president is on. Republican voters expect backbone, not posturing for self-preservation.
After all, the danger of Carlson's third party is clear.
Democrats have transformed into a vehicle for cancerous, third-world leftism that rejects individual rights, merit, and America's founding principles. Their embrace of critical social justice theory prioritizes group oppression narratives over evidence and the overall Western tradition. This fuels division on college campuses, in government, throughout workplaces, among people looking for romance, and across dinner tables.
Polling shows a clear majority of Democrats would rather live outside America. They overwhelmingly prefer socialism to capitalism. Their agenda threatens the ordered liberty that built this nation. Handing them power through Republican disunity would be catastrophic.
Republican voters won the White House for Trump and rejected the monumental failures of Biden-Harris. They did not do so to watch their party splinter over a fifty-something man-child's temper tantrum. Carlson's splinter effort, if it gains even modest traction, could flip close races and empower the very Democrats he once warned against.
The GOP response must be unified rejection. Shun Carlson's platform. Dismiss the nostalgia for his television days. Treat his third-party vision as the blue electoral gift that it is.
This is a moment for choosing sides.
Stand with the President Trump and the GOP, who are confronting terror sponsors and delivering for American families. Reject the saboteur who calls national defense treason while chasing toxic alliances with leftist and rightist undesirables. Remember that Vice President Vance's continued silence invites escalating scrutiny from members of his own party.
Carlson has chosen exile from the GOP fold. Republican voters should make that exile complete, by viewing him no better than they do Zohran Mamdani. They should have no hesitation in disavowing Carlson, and zero false memories of his Fox News persona. No Republican should have any illusion that Tucker Carlson's path serves American greatness. It obviously serves his own warped, self-absorbed, grievance-propelled agenda.
The country's interests should always come first. Unity around making America great again through the GOP, not destructive third-party stunts, is how brighter days are built.
As Frederick Douglass once said, “the Republican Party is the ship, and all else is the sea.”
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