In a new interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Tucker stated, “I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country. I mean, if you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you’re degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s lives is likely gone. No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor. ‘What about Hamas?’ I officially don’t care about Hamas. The US government should have, as its first priority, the welfare of its own people.” “I don’t want to be a candidate” in said third party, he added. Hmmm, I don’t believe that.
His third party would look like the following if the article is accurate: Total opposition to immigration, abortion, and trans rights. He also takes a strong stand against war.
Tucker wants to quash Israeli influence in the US-Iran war. He said Netanyahu wants the US to change the regime in Iran.
The people who are influencing the president include his donors, says Tucker. “Those would include John Paulson and Miriam Adelson and Rupert Murdoch, who’s had a huge effect on Trump. Rupert Murdoch would call Trump three or four times a day to encourage him to attack Iran. And I know that because I’ve talked to Trump about it many times.”
He said he is not against the Jews.
Tucker told the interviewer, “No. I’m not an anti-Semite; if I was an anti-Semite, I would just say so: “I’m against the Jews, here’s why.” I don’t have an employer. I don’t have investors. I don’t even have any creditors, so I can say whatever I think is true, and I plan to. “
He wants to end all immigration.
“Now, I’m for less immigration. In fact, I’m for ending all immigration today. I don’t know how you can justify immigration when half of all white-collar jobs are going away because of AI. What are people going to do for a living? There’s no economic justification for any immigration in the United States because we can’t even figure out what we’re going to do with all these unemployed people. So it’s crazy. Social-services spending, healthcare, education—who’s going to pay for that? So I’m opposed. And in the case of Sebastian Gorka—like, I would deport him immediately.”
How he gets his information.
“I’ve never posted in my life. I don’t have my password on social media. I don’t read anything. I get almost all my information by text message or phone call. That’s it. It could be every bit as wrong. But I just don’t trust anybody at all, and I don’t want it in my head. I’ve never listened to a podcast. I have some form of intense dyslexia, and something about podcasts, movies, and television puts me to sleep almost immediately. I still read books every day.”
According to a recent New York Times/Siena poll of self-identified Republicans and Trump voters, nearly 60 percent of those with a “very favorable” view of Carlson say “they want the next Republican presidential nominee to take the party in a new direction.”
If he creates a third party, he will pick off single-issue conservatives who want to focus on abortion, wars, or immigration, those who dabble in conspiracy theories., or those who are too angry with the GOP to vote for them. It wouldn’t be a huge success, but it would dismantle the Republican Party if successful.
