{"id":2084,"date":"2026-06-23T08:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:36:33","slug":"tucker-carlson-officially-ditches-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson officially ditches the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was updated to include a missing quotation mark and correct a typo when spelling &#8220;The Guardian.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2082\">Congress explicitly said \u2018no\u2019 to this Trump order \u2014 and he\u2019s defying them anyway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking for his podcast Can\u2019t Be Censored, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said he is leaving the Republican Party \u2014 and he blames President Donald Trump\u2019s ostensible support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not support the Republican party, there&#8217;s no chance I would support the Republican party,\u201d Carlson declared in his Thursday episode, with him reposting the clip on X on Monday. \u201cHow could I support a political party that is not loyal to the United States. I voted Republican my entire life, I have been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party, but there is no defending this. I&#8217;m out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson argued that, by starting a war against Iran in February, he prioritized Israel\u2019s interests over those of the United States. Despite Trump\u2019s claims to the contrary, Carlson asserted that the president was unduly influenced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enter a war that America has \u201ceffectively lost already.\u201d He added that he believes Trump\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign was funded by individuals whose \u201cloyalty to Israel\u201d does not align with American foreign policy priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The right-wing podcaster\u2019s split with Trump over Israel is part of a broader pattern on both sides of the aisle. A February poll taken by Gallup found support for Israel has dropped among Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. Independents support Palestinians over Israel by 41 to 30 percent and Democrats do so by 65 percent to 17 percent. Republicans still overwhelmingly support Israel, by 70 percent to 13 percent, but this still counts as a 10-point drop since 2024. Overall American support for Israel has fallen from 46 percent to 33 percent in favor of Israel in 2025 to 41 percent to 36 percent against Israel in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to AlterNet, former Harvard law professor, former lawyer for Trump and Zionist activist Alan Dershowitz argued that rising anti-Semitism on both sides of the aisle will compel Israel and the Jewish community to become \u201cstronger\u201d and more cautious about the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe alternative is to be strong,\u201d Dershowitz told AlterNet. \u201cThe alternative is to prepare for the worst. The alternative is for Israel to be completely self-reliant, for Jews not to expect help from other people, but to do it on their own, the way they did it when they were the best musicians, the best chess players, the best inventors, the best entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I think Jews have to realize that they&#8217;re not going to get, they can&#8217;t count on the kindness of strangers, and they shouldn&#8217;t give up any of their security in the name of public relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the rise of anti-Israel sentiment from both the right and left, Dershowitz characterized it as anti-Semitic and compared the current historical moment to the World War II era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe antisemite to the right, antisemite to the left have more in common than they are different,\u201d Dershowitz said, then comparing the current movements to those of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. \u201cAnd that goes back to [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler. Stalin and Hitler had only one thing in common, that they both hated Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2081\">Top Trump officials claim they\u2019ve found bizarre new \u2018deep state hoax\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel\u2019s war against Gaza has led to 72,835 fatalities as of May, according to the World Health Organization. The initial Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7th led to 1,195 Israeli deaths, including 815 civilians, as well as 251 additional civilians who were taken hostage, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with AlterNet in March about the tendency to blame Israel for America\u2019s war against Iran, Brandeis University historian Jonathan Sarna said that one can criticize Israeli government officials without being anti-Semitic just as one can criticize American government officials without hating America. The challenge, he added, is discerning when those criticisms are used to denounce all Israelis, delegitimize Israel\u2019s right to exist or hold Israel to a double standard compared to its predominantly Muslim neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can be critical of President Trump without being un-American,\u201d Sarna told AlterNet. \u201cMost people who criticize President Trump or the Republicans would assure you how much they love America and hold a fundamentally positive view of it. It seems to me that it&#8217;s deeply important for us to do the same with Israel \u2014 that is, to make clear that there is a huge difference between disliking the policies of the Prime Minister of Israel and hating Israel itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIf you wouldn&#8217;t equate criticism of the President with hating America, there is no reason \u2014 and indeed it is wrong and wicked \u2014 to do so with regard to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Israel itself is starting to turn on Trump, with many Israelis believing that his tentative settlement with Iran will leave the nation as powerful as before and just as capable of attacking Israel directly or through proxies like Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah. As restaurateur Daniel Dorfmann, an Israeli in the town of Metulla which is close to the Lebanon border, angrily told The Guardian, \u201cEveryone was very pleased with the war [against Iran] but the US agreement is really not good for Israel \u2026 It\u2019s a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Carlson is officially leaving the Republican Party over Israel, this is not his first deviation from the GOP on policy matters. Speaking with this journalist for Salon in 2019, Carlson challenged Republicans for seeming to prioritize capital over labor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy intention in writing it was to remind the Republican Party that these are now issues of concern for you, because for a hundred years you represented capital over and against labor,\u201d Carlson told Salon at the time regarding an editorial he composed on the need for the party to be more pro-labor. \u201cI mean that\u2019s kind of the purpose of the Republican Party. They used to represent the investor class, right? So the conventional criticisms of the Republicans as the party of management were 100 percent true, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWhat I wanted to remind Republican lawmakers was that it\u2019s no longer true, that\u2019s not your constituency anymore. You have a new constituency and it\u2019s people who are primarily wage earners and primarily \u2014 not low income, but lower income.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2079\">Trump wants to seize the Smithsonian \u2014 and he has a plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was updated to include a missing quotation mark and correct a typo when spelling &#8220;The Guardian.&#8221;Speaking for his podcast Can\u2019t Be Censored, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said he is leaving the Republican Party \u2014 and he blames President Donald Trump\u2019s ostensible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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