Will a New America-first Third Party Save Us?
“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” former U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on X on August 1 above a photograph showing her and other erstwhile Trump supporters seated around a table. “But he’s betrayed us all,” she continued. “Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun.”
In addition to Greene, others in the photo include Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, and Tucker Carlson, who hosted the weekend meeting at his home in Maine.
A “Unity Ticket”
Thus far, there have not been a lot of specifics regarding the movement they’re strategizing. “Could it potentially be a new third party?” Cenk Uygur asked Kent on The Young Turks. “It certainly could,” Kent responded. He also observed, “Most of us came to the conclusion that most Americans that we talk to, they’re sick of the Republicans; they’re sick of the Democrats…. Even a lot of like hardcore Trump supporters right now, they feel very betrayed.”
“Joe Kent said the group that met at Tucker Carlson’s house is trying to convince Tucker to run,” Uygur summarized in an X post. “They think [Vice President] JD Vance is too compromised. [Kent] also explained how they’re going to try to appeal to the left to get a unity ticket to represent all of America.”
The Role of an Informed Electorate
If Carlson, Massie, Greene, Kent, and others were to create a third party, would it be successful? Reframing the question: Would genuine America-first, pro-Constitution politicians have a better chance of getting elected to the presidency or Congress if they were to run on a third-party ticket or as Independents, as opposed to running as Republicans?
Regardless of the answer to that question, there is no question that their election prospects would improve to the extent that the voters are informed and agree with their message. Creating this understanding is key. Low-information voters can easily be beguiled.
A Perfect Example: Massie’s Primary Loss
Consider the recent defeat of Massie — one of the group assembled around Carlson’s table — in the Republican primary in the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky. In that race, he garnered 45.1 percent of the vote, which was a huge percentage dropoff compared to the overwhelming 75.9 percent of the vote he got in his Republican primary election in 2024. However, he still got more votes in the 2026 Republican primary than he did in the 2024 primary — 47,539 votes as compared to 39,929.
How can that be? Many more people voted in the district’s 2026 Republican primary than voted in 2024 — 105,361 votes as compared to 52,593. That’s a doubling of the total vote! But this doubling was not matched by a corresponding increase in the number of informed voters who cast their ballots in the May 19, 2026 primary. Not by a long shot.Many of those who cast their ballots that day were low-information voters who were beguiled by the powers-that-be into believing that Massie was a liberal cloaked in Republican garb.
After all, the propaganda blitz against Massie claimed, he opposed President Donald Trump’s policies, he opposed Trump’s war in Iran, he voted against Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, etc. Too many voters did not understand that Massie voted against Trump policies that were unconstitutional while supporting others that were not unconstitutional; that Trump’s decision to attack Iran without going to Congress for a declaration of war was one such unconstitutional policy; and that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill raised the national debt ceiling by $5 trillion. (In reality, Massie’s record in support of the Constitution is sterling, as measured by The New American’s Freedom Index.)
Education Is the Key
Though Massie was outspent in what turned out to be the most expensive congressional primary race in U.S. history, he was able to raise sufficient funds to get his message out. However, his spending was not enough to overcome the false narrative that too many low-information voters had bought into. On the other hand, if most Republican voters were truly informed, they would not have been beguiled.
The program of The John Birch Society — which does not endorse political parties or candidates — is to create the understanding that is so vitally needed to restore sound government under the Constitution. If that understanding is created, the political process will take care of itself: Politicians who support the principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence will be elected, and those who don’t will be voted out of office. On the other hand, if that understanding is not created, then we should not expect any new or existing political party to save us; the people, lacking knowledge, will continue to vote themselves into slavery.
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