Tucker Carlson has announced his next move in the wake of his messy breakup with the Republican Party. “I’m going to help build a third party,” the onetime MAGA loyalist and staunch Trump supporter told Columbia Journalism Review in a story published Wednesday. “There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.”Carlson argued that in America’s financial state today “if you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you’re degraded.” “Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s lives is likely gone. No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor … The U.S. government should have, as its first priority, the welfare of its own people.”When asked if he would be a presidential candidate for the inchoate party, Carlson shut down the idea.“I don’t want to be a candidate. Before I did the Times interview, someone said to me, ‘They’re going to ask you if you’re running for president,’” he said, referring to his interview last month with The New York Times. “I was very tempted to say ‘I am running—on the pro-patriarchy ticket.’ Just to make sure I gain no new fans.” Earlier in the interview, the former Fox News reporter argued that the current political parties are in “lockstep solidarity with each other.” Tucker Carlson and President Donald Trump were once strong political allies before their public and bitter falling-out in recent months. via Associated Press“That’s not a democracy. That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken, and there’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about,” he said.Seemingly speaking on his nascent rift with the Republican Party that’s heightened in recent weeks, he continued, “And that’s the lesson of the last two and a half months, to me.”Carlson then directly called out President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “If you vote for Trump and you still wind up in a regime-change war — if Chuck Schumer is strongly behind Trump’s foreign policy, which he is — then we need options, or else let’s just give up and be ruled by the most unscrupulous people.” He added, “And I’m just too young to accept that. We need a third party.” Carlson publicly denounced the Republican Party late last month. “I would not support the Republican Party, there’s no chance,” he said during an appearance on the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast. “[I’m] not going to support the Democratic Party. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”Carlson was embroiled in a public feud with Trump after criticizing the president’s involvement with Israel, namely the administration’s actions in the U.S.-Israel joint military conflict with Iran.Trump has fired back at Carlson’s criticisms, calling him a “low IQ person” and attacking him with offensive memes on Truth Social.