Tucker Carlson said he wants to start a third major political party “as a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.”

The conservative commentator and former Fox News host, who has said he’s abandoning the Republican Party following President Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran war, argued that neither major party adequately represents Americans on what he considers the nation’s most important issues.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Carlson said he plans to help build a new political movement focused on domestic priorities, particularly economic concerns facing working-class Americans.

“I’m going to help build a third party,” Carlson said. “There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.”

Carlson argued that Republicans and Democrats are effectively united on foreign policy and government spending.

“I do know what really matters is war and finance,” he said. “On those questions, the parties are in lockstep solidarity with each other. That’s not a democracy. That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken.”

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