Will be interesting to see but it can only work if he builds from the bottom up fed/state/local. He should cherry pick toss up districts in congress and start there. They also would not get any committee seats, system is totally set up against it. Look at bernie, calls himself an independent but is beholden to the dems.
I think it's way past due. We need a new political party. And even though I don’t like Elon Musk, it’s going to take someone with serious influence and deep pockets to pull it off. Musk has X (formerly Twitter) and billions of dollars. No one is in a better position.
I’m a moderate who leans conservative. The current GOP has abandoned all conserative values. The Republican Party’s been hijacked by neocons, warmongers, racists, and bigots for too damn long. People like Lindsey Graham, who serve the interests of war profiteers, and Marco Rubio, who seems driven by a personal vendetta against Cuba, have no place in government.
As for Elon Musk, the real concern would be him trying to form a plutocratic party controlled by the ultra-wealthy. Though, if we are being honest, that already describes both the Republican and Democratic parties.
given the stunning levels of competence he's shown across all his endeavors - spacex rockets blowing up on the platform, his zero flaw self driving tesla taxis, the las vegas loop, taking over twitter (now X, even though nobody calls it that), down to his endorsement of trump and leading/not-leading the 'DOGE' group (which it turns out was the most ironically named anything, ever), I'm sure the levels of success he'll achieve will best be described in either angstroms or planck lengths.
@NerdyPotato The non-MAGA GOP already voted blue for the past two elections (Lincoln Project, Cheneys et al.) and have the numbers maybe to run a mayoral campaign in a small-mid town in the middle of Texas
Fixating with that minority has already costed the Dems an election, it's better forgetting about those altogether..
@iamthe99 A reality that no one wants to face is that he is likely to eventually be president.
Yeah the constitution says he can't but that thing isn't worth the paper it is written on. The way our govt works, they just go in and change sh*t to fit their needs.
I have a feeling that once musk does end up in office, we will be wishing it were trump.
@iamthe99 there's no law that a party's presidential candidate has to be its founder. He can write policies and let another party member run for president to execute them.
@Punches Trump was never the problem, he's a symptom of the problem. There's a deep rot in the Republican party that drives them towards Fascism. Even before Trump, Moscow Mitch stole a SCOTUS appointment from Obama. This was a huge authoritarian act which happened way before Trumpism. There's also the fact that so many Americans were willing to vote for Trump. That doesn't just happen, Trump isn't magic, that's a result of social problems that need to be solved or we'll just end up with another Trump in a few years.
@BohemianBabe So basically trump is the scapegoat of the republican party? I mean it does seem strange that none of the other people in the govt are willing to stand up to him. Like he is just doing their dirty work and then he looks like the "Bad guy".
I wouldn't be able to find it now but I did read an article that was a longer version of what you said. Basically how trump is the embodiment of what America has become.
It's not a political party. He doesn't have the intelligence, discipline, or attention span to form and build a political party. It's super-PAC filled with his ill-gotten money.
