What’s in Tucker Carlson’s ‘Save America’ manifesto?

    The popular journalist envisions a MAGA movement purged of Donald Trump’s neocon tendencies

    Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson has unveiled his 10-point vision for a post-Trump MAGA movement, amid growing speculation that he plans to help launch a third party to take on the US Democrat-Republican duopoly.

    In a 90-minute livestream on Wednesday, Carlson declared the American political system “totally incapable of responding to reality” and unable to deal with the dual threats of AI and nuclear war – referring to the “merging” of the Ukraine and Iran conflicts into a “world war.”

    “It’s worth thinking about what comes next,” Carlson said. “Something will replace this system…and it will probably be a third party or multiple parties.”

    Describing the Democratic and Republican platforms as “identical,” Carlson suggested that any third party should embrace the following “ten things that America should be”:

    • Fair – American politicians and elites should be held to the same objective standards as ordinary citizens, while members of the “Epstein class” should no longer “get a pass,” and DEI programs should be eliminated.
    • Sovereign – The US should no longer be beholden to foreign lobby groups, particularly Israel, which Carlson said forced the US into war with Iran through “bribery or threat or both.”
    • Productive – The US economy should not be founded on finance and debt. America “needs to make things” and reinvest in agriculture and heavy industry.
    • Beautiful – The US “is, always has, and should continue to be beautiful.” Concrete Brutalist architecture should be rejected, as should the “uglification” of cities through graffiti, open drug use, and littering.
    • Healthy – Physical and spiritual health should be prioritized, and “there shouldn’t be any poison” in food. Cannabis, alcohol, and pharmaceutical drugs like Adderall and SSRIs make the US a “less human country” and should be discouraged.
    • Honest – “If it’s a crime to lie to the government…then it has to be a crime for the federal government to lie to you.” Officials should face punishment for lying to citizens, and classified documents on 9/11 and the JFK assassination should be released.
    • Optimistic – American elites should strive to hand a better future to their children, and having children should be encouraged. A society that places value on children discourages short-term gain and speculation and encourages sensible policy.
    • Wise – Education should not be a “credentialing system” and should teach children “how things work.” Schools should emphasize “the things that don’t change, like human nature,” including innate gender and genetic differences between people.
    • Decent – The US needs to move away from a system that allows Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “jump around like a bloodthirsty monkey.” Funding for allies who commit “genocide” should be withdrawn. Restitution should be paid to Iran over the killing of civilians.
    • United – “No country can continue without a sense of itself as a nation.” Mass immigration should be paused while a national identity is consolidated, benefits for immigrants should be cut, and English should be the sole federal language.
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    Doesn’t this sound like Trump’s MAGA platform?

    There is significant crossover between Carlson’s manifesto and President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promises. Trump also promised to lead a sovereign and isolationist US that would stay out of foreign conflicts, reindustrialize the country, purge liberal ideology from the education system, beautify public architecture and clean up the country’s major cities, as well as restrict immigration. Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has also banned some artificial food ingredients and attempted to clamp down on the overprescription of psychiatric drugs.

    That Carlson would support these positions is no surprise. A supporter of Trump since his days as a Fox News host, Carlson campaigned for Trump’s reelection in 2024, describing him as “a wonderful person” and “the leader of this nation” at that year’s Republican National Convention.

    However, Carlson’s relationship with Trump soured shortly after Trump took office last year. Carlson repeatedly urged Trump not to go to war with Iran, describing the conflict as “disgusting and evil” and in the interest of nobody but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To Carlson and a growing number of the president’s former allies, Trump betrayed his promise to put “America first” by surrounding himself with neocons and waging the same regime-change wars he vowed to end.

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    Why release the manifesto now?

    The weekend before his livestream, Carlson hosted some of the most prominent MAGA defectors at his home in Maine. Among his guests were former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative Thomas Massie, and former National Counterterrorism Center chief Joe Kent. All three have publicly condemned the war with Iran, with Greene and Massie also breaking with Trump over what they described as his efforts to conceal documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    The get-together was interpreted by US media as a first step toward founding a third party to contest the 2028 elections, in which Trump’s successor – likely Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio – will lead the Republican Party. While nobody at the meeting confirmed this, they did drop some strong hints.

    “We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene wrote on X. “But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun.”

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