Commentary on Tucker Carlson's Political Project | Ep. 48

Tucker Carlson has told the Columbia Journalism Review he intends to help build a third party, calling the American government “a one-party state posing as a democracy” that “needs to be broken.” Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, and Brian Glenn have now been photographed around Carlson’s table, with Greene declaring that “the movement has begun.”

Jeremy has been making one argument about Tucker Carlson for a long time, and it wasn’t the popular one. The popular argument on the right is that Tucker is a grifter—that he says whatever the audience wants to hear because the audience pays for it. Jeremy’s argument has been the opposite, and it is more troubling: Tucker isn’t chasing a check. He’s building something. A political project with a coherent shape—socially conservative, economically left of the Republican Party, and organized around opposition to Israel and to American power abroad.