Disgraced former television host Tucker Carlson has announced that he has left the Republican Party. It should be met with a resounding “good riddance,” and an acknowledgment that President Donald Trump has pushed extremists out of the GOP while Democrats have embraced their own.
Carlson made his announcement on his show, claiming that “I would not support the Republican Party. There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party,” because, “at this point, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens?”
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This is welcome news. Carlson is the most “Israel First” person in the American political arena, because Israel is the first and just about the only thing he ever wants to talk about. He is utterly obsessed with Israel, and he has decided to abandon the fight against Democrats (which he used to pretend was crucial to the future of the country) because the GOP won’t fully embrace his antisemitic conspiracy theories and Islamist propaganda about the Middle East.
It is a good reminder that Trump has mostly excised the extremists and antisemites from the GOP during his second term. Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene boasted that “There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country,” a conclusion she came to because she, too, has bought into Palestinian propaganda. Greene was driven out of the party by Trump (many years too late, but better late than never), just as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), another Israel obsessive, was in Kentucky.
Trump has sidelined the hateful elements of the party to the point that they are loudly quitting in hopes of drawing more attention to themselves. This was evident back in March, when a poll found that 83% of Republicans trusted Trump’s judgment on Iran, while a negligible 6% trusted Carlson’s judgment. Carlson and company aren’t leaving the GOP — Republican voters left them behind and rejected their influence long ago.
This is in stark contrast to the Democratic Party, which has rushed to elevate its antisemites to the mayorship of New York City or in Senate races in Maine and Michigan.
Democrats are now even promoting the GOP’s antisemites. As David Zimmermann wrote for the Washington Examiner about Carlson’s grand departure, “The episode was released on Thursday, but his admission didn’t catch public attention until Monday after the Kamala Harris-aligned Headquarters X account posted the relevant clip.”
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If that doesn’t speak to Carlson’s irrelevance in the GOP, and to how eager Democrats are to promote antisemites, what does?
There is no denying that the Republican Party has become a less extreme, less hateful party in Trump’s second term. The departure of the Carlsons, Greenes, Massies of the party stands in direct contrast with the Democratic Party’s promotion of Zohran Mamdani and his ilk.