After recently pulling his years-long support of the GOP, Tucker Carlson has floated the idea of creating a new political party amid his rift with President Donald Trump and the broader MAGA coalition.
The Conservative commentator, who was once a close ally of Trump, said he’s “going to help build a third party,” insisting “there should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.”
In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review released Wednesday, Carlson argued that the U.S. government has forgotten about the American people. “If you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you’re degraded,” he said. “No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor.”
Specifying that he would not want to be a candidate for any such new party, Carlson argued that Democrats and Republicans have become indistinguishable on key issues.
“That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken,” Carlson claimed. “There’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about.”
Two major parties—Democratic and Republican—have dominated U.S. politics and no third party in recent memory has been able to penetrate the two-party system in a meaningful way.
Former 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Andrew Yang, for example, has pushed for representation beyond the two-party system, but has arguably encountered limited success with his Forward Party.
Yet, Carlson isn’t the only former MAGA figure to push for a challenge of America’s political system.
After his relationship with Trump fractured earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “formed” a new political party titled the "America Party."
The moniker echoed that of his super political action committee (PAC), America PAC, which was founded in 2024 to support Trump’s efforts to return to the White House. The super PAC reportedly spent around $200 million to help elect Trump. Musk’s donations m
