Tucker Bails – Declares He’s Done With GOP

Tucker Carlson just declared he is done with the Republican Party — and he says he is far from alone.

Story Snapshot

Carlson said “I’m out” on a June 18, 2026 podcast, calling the GOP “immoral” for putting a foreign country’s interests above American citizens.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene followed within days, posting on X that she is “DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.”
Neither Carlson nor Greene plan to join the Democratic Party — leaving both in political no-man’s land ahead of the midterms.
The split centers on the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, specifically the U.S. role in the Iran conflict and its close ties to Israel.

Carlson’s Break Was Blunt and Personal

Tucker Carlson did not ease into this. On the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast, he said flat out: “I would not support the Republican Party. There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party.” He called the GOP’s behavior “immoral” and said it was doing “exactly the opposite” of what a political party is supposed to do — represent its own citizens. He added, “And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out, too.” ^[1]

The core of his complaint is foreign policy. Carlson accused Republicans of backing Trump’s Iran war under pressure from Israeli leadership — a conflict he said the U.S. has “effectively lost already.” He framed it as a loyalty question: how can any American voter support a party that puts the interests of a foreign nation above its own people? That argument, whether you agree with it or not, is one that resonates with a specific and growing slice of the conservative base. ^[2]

Greene Echoed the Sentiment Within Hours

Former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene did not wait long to pile on. She posted on X: “Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party. There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country.” She branded the GOP the “America LAST Republican Party” — a deliberate flip of the “America First” slogan that once defined the MAGA movement. Greene lost Trump’s endorsement before leaving Congress, so her political options inside the party were already gone. ^[9]

Both Carlson and Greene were quick to say they are not switching to the Democrats. Carlson admitted, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” That honesty is either refreshing or alarming, depending on your view. But it does signal something real: there is no soft landing for populist conservatives who break with the GOP right now. There is no third party ready to catch them. They are walking off a ledge with no net below.

The Credibility Problem Neither Can Escape

It is worth taking Carlson’s “35-year Republican defender” claim with some skepticism. Voter registration records show he was registered as a Democrat from 2006 to 2020 — a detail that undercuts the idea of a lifelong, unwavering Republican finally reaching his breaking point. Carlson also apologized earlier this year for “misleading people” when he backed Trump, which raises a fair question: how much of this departure is principle, and how much is a media personality chasing the next audience? ^[3]

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Tucker Carlson isn’t alone.
The Georgia congresswoman says she’s among a growing number of conservatives who are “fed up” with the Republican Party and refuse to support what she called an “America Last” agenda. pic.twitter.com/4pifuTvbzd

— John Bradley (@JohnBradlebkeu) June 25, 2026

Greene’s situation is different but no less complicated. She is no longer in Congress. She lost Trump’s endorsement. Her path back to political relevance inside the Republican Party was essentially closed before she made this announcement. Calling her exit a principled stand is harder to argue when the door was already shut. The Townhall assessment said it plainly: “Good riddance, Tehran Tucker” — a sign that many in the conservative mainstream view this as addition by subtraction, not a crisis for the GOP. ^[16]

What This Actually Signals About the GOP’s Future

The bigger story here is not Carlson or Greene specifically. It is the crack they represent. Foreign policy has fractured the Republican Party before — after the Iraq War in the mid-2000s, and again when Trump first ran in 2016 on a non-interventionist platform. The tension between “America First” isolationists and traditional Republican hawks never went away. It just went quiet while Trump was winning. Now that the Iran conflict has become a real, costly war with no clear victory in sight, that tension is loud again.

Most Republican voters still support Trump’s foreign policy direction, according to analysts who track conservative opinion. ^[17] So Carlson and Greene are not leading a mass exodus — at least not yet. But they are giving language and visibility to a frustration that is real inside the base. Whether that frustration grows into something that costs the GOP at the midterms is the question that nobody can answer right now. And that uncertainty is exactly why this story matters more than it might first appear.