The Political Divorce Everyone Saw Coming

Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party.

That’s the same as Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

For a long time, I’ve been talking about ideological borders for conservatives, because words have meanings and political movements must have borders. It turns out these “Republicans” are self-deporting, which is a good thing, because what we don’t need in the party are people who won’t assimilate to our culture or our values and who would like our enemies to win.

Good riddance.

Vice President JD Vance was recently on Megyn Kelly’s show in order to trot out his defense of the Iran deal, and he said something interesting: that even if you disagree with the administration, you should vote Republican, because the alternative is to put Democrats in power. That makes sense.

Let’s put aside all of the nonsense that the vice president was peddling about how we really need a bunch of people who love the Iran deal to stay in, because otherwise the neocons are going to win, etc., etc.

The whole point of what people on the horseshoe Right, or the woke Right, are doing is to destroy the Republican Party from within, to throw their support to someone else in order to get the Republican Party to run after them.

I’m okay with people who are rabidly anti-American leaving the party. I don’t think we need them here. I think that if you came into the Republican Party because you were a refugee from your home party or from your home ideology, and we brought you in here as a kindness, and then you proceeded to take advantage of our system and proceeded to believe that we were going to change all of our principles for you, it’s time for you to self-deport.

Now, Tucker Carlson is self-deporting from the Republican Party. He’s very upset with the administration because the administration is not pro-Russia or pro-Iran enough for him.

Yesterday, he announced on the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast — I have to admit, I find it somewhat hilarious that there are podcasts with sizable audiences that claim that they’re being “censored” — that he no longer supports the Republican Party; he can’t because it’s just too immoral. A moral Republican Party would have sided with Hezbollah, Iran, and the Russians.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

He said:

How could I or any American voters 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 … 

I voted Republican my entire life. … I’ve been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. … But there’s no defending this because it’s immoral. And it’s exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they’re not doing that. So no, I’m out.

Tucker acts like he’s been a Republican for 35 years. That’s weird, because he was a registered Democrat from 2006 to 2020. He said he did that so he could vote for the Democrats in primaries and manipulate the system — except that Washington, D.C., where he was living, has a closed primary system.

I have some questions.

If the Republican Party will not support Vladimir Putin’s aspirations in Ukraine, if the Republican Party will not sing the glories of Russian bread and Russian subways and Russian hamburgers, if the Republican Party will not bend over for Qatar completely, if the Republican Party refuses to just cheer on the Iranians as they foster terrorism throughout the region, my goodness, what are we even doing here?

Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed, “There is [sic] a lot of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are done with the America Last Republican Party.”

Megyn Kelly told JD Vance that she never believed she should simply leave because she’s upset over what the Republicans are doing. But two weeks ago, she was with Sean Ryan talking about forming a horseshoe coalition with Ana Kasparian, who has tweeted support for terrorism.

The important point is that the Republican Party has certain principles. If you do not accord with those centralizing principles, e.g., peace through strength, then probably you shouldn’t be here. That’s okay. You can leave.

But you should not be the lodestar of a new Republican Party.

Self-deportation is a good policy for people who joined up for the wrong reasons in the first place.