Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson said he plans to help build a new political party in the United States during an interview on Wednesday with Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).
“We need a third party,” said Carlson. “I’m going to help build a third party.”
Carlson described the two major American political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, as groups in “lockstep solidarity with each other.”
“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,” he said, referring to US President Donald Trump and US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “And I’m just too young to accept that.”
“That’s not a democracy,” he added. “That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken.”
The former Fox News host told the interviewer that he did not plan to run as a candidate for the potential new party, sarcastically saying that he would only run “on the pro-patriarchy ticket.”
“There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country,” Carlson noted. “The US government should have, as its first priority, the welfare of its own people.”
Carlson ‘pushed into’ talking about Israel
Regarding Israel, Carlson said he “did not anticipate” talking about the Jewish State following his firing from Fox, saying he had been “pushed into it.”
“I felt I had no choice,” he explained. “Early in 2025, Netanyahu showed up at the White House right after Trump’s inauguration, and I thought, ‘This is a little early to be siphoning off the energy from this campaign and this election for the benefit of another country.'”
“I very quickly began to understand the point of these visits was a regime-change effort in Iran,” added Carlson. “And that’s something that I talked to Trump about many times over ten years. Fifty times! More! In public, but mostly in private.
Iran-war ‘regime-change effort’ by Israel
He described Israel’s June 2025 war with Iran as a “huge change” in his life, claiming that the conflict “was not about Iran’s nuclear program.”
“It was the first salvo in a regime-change effort led by Israel,” he said. “And that’s just antithetical to everything Trump ran on.”
He added that Israel is not a significant country “from an American perspective,” despite having visited the country multiple times.
“It’s not in our hemisphere. It’s got no resources. So I just don’t care,” said Carlson. “But once you start taking over my political system and destroying my country, then I have a right to care. So now I do care.”
