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MUSK’S AMERICAN PARTY

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   July 7, 2025 - 10:05 am at 10:05 am

   Our next surprising development sprang from the feverish cortex of the world’s richest man. Yesterday, Vanity Fair ran the story headlined, “Elon Musk, Encouraged By Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci, Says He’s Starting A New Political Party.” A third party. Trump responded with a predictably spicy post calling the move “ridiculous” and calling Elon “off the rails.”

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   In a dramatic Independence Day weekend flex, Mars-colonizing Elon Musk, the former Trump insider turned digital warlord, announced the formation of a brand-new political movement: The America Party. Musk took to X (of course) to proclaim he’s giving Americans their “freedom back.” The move came after an epic public spat with Trump, complete with deportation threats, Epstein file jabs, and cagey apologies— the kind of online brawl that only 2025 could deliver.

   Back on Earth, folks reacted to the announcement with everything from furious rage to baffled bemusement.

   If anyone deserves to try creating a third party, it is former Democrat Elon Musk. The world’s richest man, who announced his leap of support (literally) for Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, undoubtedly helped re-elect the President, and also erected DOGE. He took risks and paid prices most of us can barely imagine.

   The peace-loving Democrats were burning down his Tesla dealerships.

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   ? The ragey reactions seem premature. First, it’s no direct threat to Trump, who only gets one term anyway. If we don’t fix it right this time, and for good, then you know exactly what happens next. But Elon is aiming at the 2026 midterms, which currently look very good for the GOP. So some folks worry that Elon’s third party will somehow wreck Congress.

   Let’s do some political calculus. Elon’s new America party will not garner any partisans, neither hardcore Democrats nor Republicans. So it’s aimed at the middle. But it is not likely to attract conservative leaners (MAGA), which will hew to Trump, especially with Mike Pence on Musk’s team. Nor will it seem very interesting to left-leaning undecideds in the MAHA movement, since Elon has neither RFK nor a health platform.

   So … who’s left for the America party? Only Never Trumpers and disaffected Democrats.

   Proving my point, Vanity Fair cited four prominent America party supporters. The first was billionaire Mark Cuban, who campaigned for Kamala last time around. And it quoted ex-White House speedrun champion Anthony Scaramucci, who worked for Trump 1.0 for 11 days before he got fired and immediately became a professional Trump critic and corporate media mainstay.

   The only other prominent supporters mentioned in the article were Ed Krassenstein, a smug, loudmouth liberal podcaster who can’t stand Trump and plugged the #Resistance, and Brian Palmer, a tech-libertarian donor class capitalist; not woke, but not MAGA either. (Mike Pence is also allegedly on board.)

   So far as I can see —no official papers have yet been filed— Musk’s platform is about cost-cutting, budget-balancing, pro-deregulation, pro-robot soldiers, and a vague pronatalist vibe that sounds like a startup pitch for a fertility cult. Absent are any pesky social issues that might interfere with scooping up more former Democrats like himself, Krassenstein, or Mr. Cuban.

   It’s still early, but it looks like the new America party will be much more of a headache for Democrats than Republicans. The new third party is not a shot at the GOP’s base, which already has Trump. It’s a shot across the bow of the disillusioned Democrat diaspora: the Cuban-style former liberals who liked enterprise, science, and sanity, but got priced out of the party by DEI bureaucrats, bearded female swimmers loitering in girls’ bathrooms, and the constant nagging of the climate priests.

   Strategically speaking, based on what we know, the America Party threatens to split the Left, not the Right. If it grows legs, Musk won’t hurt Trump. He’ll hurt Newsom, Whitmer, or whoever the Democrats march out next. Already suffering from NGO and union donations losses, ActBlue investigations, self-inflicted David Hogg PR scandals, cratering polls, and an incoherent platform, a new third option is the last thing the Democrats need.

   One sense that, with any more setbacks, Democrats are ready to turn their faces to the wall, as the bright blue mascara runs down their faces with their tears.

   With polling plunging, donor wells drying up, scandals blooming like mold in a FEMA trailer, and their platform sounding like a schizophrenic group chat, the last thing Democrats need is Elon Musk rolling up in a cybertruck labeled “America Party” to peel off their former moderates and money men