Promo: Episode 590 - Is Tucker Willing to do What the DSA Won't? (w/ Glenn Greenwald)
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🗓️ 6 July 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, founder of The Intercept, and host of System Update, Glenn Greenwald, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the likelihood that Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other disaffected, America-first conservatives are planning to break from the Republican Party to start a new, anti-war third party. Will Tucker do what entryist left orgs like DSA has refused to try? Will he successfully capture the plurality of voters who do want an anti-war party? Would Tucker's party be genuinely imperialist or just anti-Israel? What do we make of his history of China hawkery, or his mea culpas for a history of Islamophobia and support for the Iraq war? Can Tucker be trusted? Do we have a choice?
Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | the arena that he's playing in, it does seem like he's getting the juice out of the squeeze. |
| 0:06.2 | Okay. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm very interested to see what happens with him going forward. |
| 0:09.3 | I want to ask you. |
| 0:10.3 | Let me just have one thing quickly because I agree with the open is wrong. |
| 0:12.0 | But I just want to underscore this point. |
| 0:14.6 | Like I said before, if this third party or independent party or whatever it's being called that Tucker kind of unveiled |
| 0:21.6 | at least his willing his like determination to create and to support ends up being basically |
| 0:27.1 | just a right-wing like maga alienated group of people is only you know him and marjorie tail |
| 0:33.8 | green and Tucker tomassie and et cetera joe kent those kind of people Tulsi who know who knows where she's going to be. But if it's only that, it's just going to be pointless. |
| 0:42.5 | It's never going to work. And I wouldn't even tell people on the left, hey, go join that. |
| 0:46.1 | It's only going to work as like a coalition of people who have differences. And that means |
| 0:53.5 | making concessions as well, you know, from everybody. And I'll just |
| 0:57.4 | like quickly add, like, I remember 1992 election, the 1992 election with Bill Clinton, George |
| 1:02.1 | H.W. Bush and Ross Perrault. Ross Perot was a Texas billionaire, really not anybody who, like, |
| 1:09.5 | the left would find interesting or would resonate with in any way. |
| 1:13.8 | And if you look back at that election, just Ross Perrault basically ran as almost a one-issue candidate, |
| 1:18.2 | which was the devastation of NAFTA and free trade while George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported it. |
| 1:24.2 | In retrospect, even though Ross Perra was not a man of the left, I do think maybe the political |
| 1:29.3 | agenda and goals of the left would have been better served if Ross Perot had been elected than |
| 1:34.7 | Bill Clinton or George H.W. Bush, despite the fact that there were huge differences between |
| 1:39.5 | the left and Ross Perot. Yeah. Bill Clinton being frankly a Republican, like the best Republican they never |
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