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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene left the Republican Party after leaving Congress this year. Now she is teasing creating a new party. She has admitted it would be difficult to get a new party on the ballot in most states, but she might be willing to try.
Another big-name right-winger who has left the Republican Party is Tucker Carlson. Both he and Greene are furious with Donald Trump for starting a war of choice in Iran and then losing it. Greene is also furious with Trump for cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein. She has been a strong supporter of Epstein's victims and has said she will never apologize for that.
Could Greene and Carlson get together and form a new party and run as a ticket on it in 2028? On paper, at least, that makes more sense than real estate developer Donald Trump running for president in 2016. Both are very well-known on the right and Greene has actually been elected to public office. If they ran as a ticket, they would home in on being America Firsters. Maybe the party could even be called something along those lines. They would oppose forever wars abroad and focus on making life better for ordinary working Americans. They would also oppose Israel and maybe even dabble in outright antisemitism. Carlson has come pretty close to that and Greene has blamed forest fires in the West on Jewish space lasers. They could say that Trump has strayed from the true MAGA way and they are the redemption.
With positions like those, they could draw support from both the left and right, so it is not clear which major party they would hurt more. That said, if you had to bet money, you'd have to bet they'd take more votes from Republicans than from Democrats. (V)