Americans have had enough of the Deep State uniparty that has embroiled the United States in endless wars abroad while ignoring a collapsing economy and bread-and-butter issues at home.
Across the board, the RealClearPolitics average of polls on President Donald Trump’s and Congress’ job performance and how both parties are viewed is well more than 50 percent — and sometimes approaching 70 percent.
And those polls show why the third-party effort from podcaster Tucker Carlson, former U.S. counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, former GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, and outgoing Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky might well take off and become a serious threat to the GOP, and perhaps the Democratic establishment as well.
Trump’s Job Performance
On every measure — from the economy and inflation to foreign policy and his illegal war in Iran — Trump’s grades are a big, fat F, the RCP average shows. His disapproval number exceeds 50 percent on all fronts.
The worst figure for Trump is that for inflation: 67.7 percent of those polled disapprove of how he’s handling that issue, the average shows. In July, a Fox News poll put that figure at 73 percent. One reason: Consumer prices have risen significantly. In May, CNBC reported that Americans have paid $450 more for gas and other items since the war began.
“The average household has shelled out $447.19 for additional fuel-related expenses since the conflict began on Feb. 28, data from Moody’s Analytics found,” CNBC reported:
That’s cumulatively cost American consumers nearly $60 billion as gas prices and airline fares have surged.
And that goes only through May; the current figure might well be much higher.
Second and third on the list are the war in Iran and the economy: 61.3 percent of those polled disapprove of that Persian misadventure, while 61.2 percent think the “stable genius” has fouled up the economy.
The other disapproval numbers aren’t any better:
Israel-Palestine: 54; and,
Overall, the president’s disapproval rating is 58.5 percent.
Apparently, Americans aren’t convinced that Trump has ushered in his promised “Golden Age.”
That might be why 59.6 percent think the country is on the “wrong track.”
Congress, the Parties
Not that Congress and the uniparty are doing much better. Americans don’t like the job they’re doing either.
Indeed, they are nearly as dissatisfied with Congress, which the GOP controls, as with Trump, whom Israel controls.
The RCP average reports that 66.5 percent of those surveyed disapprove of what Congress is doing.
As far as the parties go, 55.1 percent of those polled disapprove of the GOP, while 54.9 percent disapprove of the Democrats.
Third Party Ahead
The global dissatisfaction of Americans might just boost the fortunes of the third party that former Trump supporters are forming.
As The New American reported today, Kent revealed to far-left podcaster Cenk Uygur of the The Young Turks that he and others, including Greene and Massie, have urged Carlson to run for office, meaning the presidency.
“No matter who we vote for we get another war in the Middle East” Kent told the popular leftist:
No matter who we vote for, AIPAC and these major donors, most of whom most Americans don’t even know, they dictate a policy that sends our best young men and women off to go fight and die on foreign battlefields. They make our taxes go up, and then they give us nothing back in return but more debt and more wars.
Kent also said that a group that met at Carlson’s home urged the podcaster to run for office.
“All of us at one point in time told Tucker he needs to run, and Tucker’s been pretty public that he’s not going to run,” Kent said:
So, we all made our pitch to Tucker as to why he should run. Hopefully he wakes up one day and Tucker says he’s going to run; I would fully support that.
In June, Carlson quit the GOP because of its blind support for Israel.
“I would not support the Republican Party,” Carlson said on the Can’t Be Censored podcast:
There’s no chance I would support the Republican Party. I’m not going to support the Democratic Party. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
But at this point, how could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It’s not possible to vote for people like that, and I’m not going to.
“I’m out,” Carlson said.
After that departure, he and Greene announced plans for the third party that is now coalescing. Carlson divulged the effort to the Columbia Journalism Review, while Greene spoke to Piers Morgan.
“MAGA was betrayed,” Carlson wrote on X last night. “We all were. It’s time for a new path forward.”
