Tucker Carlson's Third Party is Already Dead in the Water....Unless-
- Fred
- 16 minutes ago
- 4 min read
Last week, Tucker Carlson rolled out of bed and dropped a 10 Point "Manifesto."
We are not going to debate, or expand, on the missive, simply give you the bullet points. Why just a brief overview? Because it's a moot point.
According to Carlson, America should be:
Fair
Sovereign
Productive
Beautiful
Healthy
Honest
Optimistic
Wise
Decent
United
Written like it was penned by a naive 19 year old college student, Carlson is trying to sell you some vague Americana, which is just repackaged MAGA talking points from before Trump went contrarian to his own campaign promises.
According to Marjorie Taylor Greene, there is a new "movement" afoot. The new leaders of this independent wave? Greene, Carlson, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, and Brian Glenn.
The reason they will not succeed has nothing to do with ideas, it is because the Democrats and Republicans are two giant corporations that are too big too fail. If the Greene/Carlson entity starts from scratch, they will fail. If they try to change the Republican Party from the "inside" when Trump leaves, they will fail.
As an independent voter that has voted third-party every presidential cycle since 2000, there is only one path for an independent third party, but it's still a long shot-
Step 1: You get Elon Musk on board. You convince him to bankroll your new idea to the tune of $2 billion. Why so much? In 2024, there was $2 billion in dark money flowing through the presidential cycle. Elon Musk, in theory, supports third parties, he started the America Party....that seemingly dissipated immediately. Because, technically, Musk is South African, he cannot run for office himself. (Which is what I think he REALLY wants.)
Step 2: You get Musk to BUY the Libertarian Party. Why the Libertarians? They are the third party with the most ballot access. They have the best infrastructure of any third party and you kick out the riff-raff, like the one that wears a boot on their head or the Born-Again Christian who thinks the Ukrainian Invasion was a billion dollar grift...for Yevgeny Prigozhin? The Libertarians are not for sale? Every one is for sale. You buy the Libertarian Party, then <poof>, you're the new definition of Libertarianism. You'd be surprised at how many saps in the Libertarian Party fell for Trump's Schtick in 2024. The way things work in America, in 2026, is that you buy things that already exist, change their meaning, and then (usually) ruin them.
Step 3: Forget FoxNews. You take a news network, like TheBlaze or the The Daily Wire, and have Glenn Beck or Ben Shapiro interviewing Tucker Carlson every single day. You need to imbed someone with the media. There needs to be a consistent heart beat to the campaign where you have an almost constant and unfettered access across a media outlet. Kind of like Trump at Fox or the Democrats at CNN.
Step 4: Work the Electoral College. Don't even set foot in New York or California, focus on states you could conceivably win.
So if you spend $2 billion-
And win some states-
And force the election into Congress
YOU STILL LOSE IN 2028.
In 2024, Donald Trump promised the Libertarians the sun and the moon, when the election was over, he loaded his cabinet with Libertarian-leaning lawmakers. Then, one-by-one, he purged them from the party.
But if you throw a contested 2028 result to the House, it shows that you are a viable entity and you'll receive matching Federal Funds for the 2032 presidential cycle. You only need 15% polling to get into the debates. Democrats only want to remove the Electoral College when they lose. If they win a contested election that is not decided by the people, but by partisan lawmakers, there will be real traction to repeal the Electoral College from the average citizen.
You could repeal the Electoral College TODAY, if you really wanted:
But when Democrats are winning, they have no interest in changing the very foundations of our Democracy. When they lose, they want to change the way the Supreme Court is constructed, whether the Electoral College should exist, or what the voting age should be.
They never ask what would be good for America.
The Founding Fathers didn't foresee many of today's technological advances, but they did warn of the unchecked power of the Nation's Political Parties. That's not my opinion, that's George Washington's opinion.
Tucker Carlson is 57 years old.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is 52 years old.
Thomas Massie is 57 years.
If those 3 core personalities committed to grinding it out and working 24/7 to fundamental change America over the next decade with a third party, in theory, they could do it. Again, if they had a Sugar Daddy. Musk isn't available, but Bezos will pony up the cash? The billionaire doesn't matter, the money matters.
Then the real work starts in 2028 for 2032 when you have the matching federal funds and an infrastructure.
Conventional wisdom is that a third party can't win, but everything is conventional wisdom... until it isn't.
Do I personally think that the Carlson/Massie/Greene Hyrda will work?
Uh, no.
Massie? I believe in him, but like all great Libertarians, he doesn't play well with others. And that would include fake Libertarians.
Note to Elon Musk:
I will throw my hat in the ring right now as the Campaign Manager for a Massie/Greene ticket.
Greene says she wants a Greene/Massie ticket?
Carlson says he wants a Carlson/Massie ticket?
Now you see the problem.
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