The businessman has been talking about creating a new political party following his public fallout with President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk said he is starting a new political party, which he dubbed the ‘America Party’ in a post on X Saturday.

Musk was born in South Africa but obtained his citizenship in 2002. He took an increasingly prominent role in politics through his partnership with Donald Trump during the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle, pumping money into the Republican’s campaign and utilizing his social media platform, X, to promote him.

However, Musk and Trump had a very public fall out after the tech mogul departed the federal government. While Musk has walked back some of his more outrageous allegations and attacks, he has persisted with the idea that the U.S. needs a new political party.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    Dude did a nazi salute and destroyed all the institutions that would force him to make better cars. He’s just another flavor of Trump

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Good, split the tech bro vote away from maga. Add in the rubes who’ll believe that the new party represents anti woke freedom, and the gop will lose big.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    This man is a human taint. That said, I would gladly take his money if it would get me into an office where I could implement some real, lasting, democratic-socialist style change. Obviously that last part of the plan would be hidden from him. Commence your down voting.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I mean fair to say but a real partnership would probably be to really just get someone to play his role while the real player moves through the democratic primary and wins.

      Musks role really only is going to serve as a potential spoiler for the republican candidates… no left leaning person is even going to consider a party funded by musk.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      I’ve been talking about running essentially on the Republican party platform from the mid-1950s. It’s basically what Dems say they want.

      • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        1 month ago

        I’ve had similar thoughts. I’ve even thought about pretending to be full maga just to get elected. Not sure if I could actually do it though.

        • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          It’s so much harder to fake being a Nazi than it is to fake being a tiny bit decent. I guess I’m just not as practiced at the Nazi thing as your average conservative is though.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    If you can’t build a sufficiently-large coalition of voters internal to one of the Big Two parties, how is starting from scratch rather than doing internal realignments going to be any easier?

    The US electoral system will stabilize around two large, big-tent parties. If you start a new party, then you will need to convince enough people to join that party, which will kill off at least one existing Big Two party. The requirement to build the coalition of voters doesn’t go away. It’s just that now you’ve got extra tasks to deal with.

    Trump didn’t get his position by cleverly manipulating internal party mechanisms in the GOP. He got it by going out and selling voters on Trump. Someone else can do that too.

  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    With how much he loves the letter, I’m shocked he didn’t call it the X party.

    I hear he loves history too, so maybe the History X party. I guess he should include the America part so people know which side he’s on.

    The “American History X” party sounds about right for him.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, there’s certainly are no fuckunf checks and balances. Amazing all the time they forced us to learn about all that shit in school turned out to be made out of paper mache.