Peter Brimelow tells Tucker Carlson “the things we were talking about 25 years ago on VDare” are “now in the public debate”
Brimelow, founder of anti-immigrant website VDare, said he was “happy” that issues like birthright citizenship are “now in the public debate”
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From the January 19, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): But I read that, and I thought, here's the world's richest man who owns this platform and a lot of other things saying this, and Peter Brimelow, who I know, who's a thoroughly decent person, has had his life turned upside down and basically been destroyed in some ways, professionally anyway, for saying things that are way more restrained for that — than that. So I have to ask you what it feels like to see that.
PETER BRIMELOW (VDARE FOUNDER): It feels kind of tingly on the one hand.
CARLSON: Tingly?
BRIMELOW: I'm happy that the debate has moved in that direction, and the things that we were talking about twenty-five years ago on VDare.com, which was my website, about birthright citizenship and so on, are now in the public debate.
On the other hand, you know, we've been ruined and we're facing personal ruin, of course, because of this attack on us by the New York attorney general, Letitia James.
As nobody knows who I am, Tucker, I should say that, you know, I'm a long time — in spite of my accent, I've been here for fifty-five years and I'm a long-time financial journalist. I worked for Forbes and Fortune and the Barron's and so on. And I worked for National Review. I wrote for National Review a lot, and I wrote a piece on immigration in 1992 saying time to rethink immigration that is sometimes credited with kicking off the modern debate. And there was a brief civil war within the conservative movement at that point, which we lost, and Buckley stabbed us in the back and purged the magazine of immigration patriots.
And for the next while, you know, the Wall Street Journal editorial page was absolutely dominant and they've — going on about the need for amnesty and there was no way to combat it. So I set up a website, which I named VDare.com after Virginia Dare, the first English child, not white child as they always say, born in the new world. And over a period of about twenty-five years, we built up into quite a force until about two years ago. It was destroyed by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who just basically subpoenaed us to death.