Elon Musk has formed a new political party as of today 7/5/25

[Peacetrain]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-america-party_n_68698e83e4b00195613a6125

Well who did not see this one coming I ask??

"July 5 (Reuters) - A day after asking his followers on X whether a new U.S. political party should be created, Elon Musk said on Saturday that the “America Party is formed.”

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's a Trojan Horse Broligarch

sent to weaken the Democratic Party.

[Peacetrain]

2. Great minds think alike.. Mr Peacetrain made a similar observation

[Wiz Imp]

27. Totally ridiculous

No way will this weaken the Democratic party . It could weaken the Republican party. Democratic voters are not going to be attracted to Musk. That should be blatantly obvious

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. That's my concern too.

[walkingman]

3. I hope it would draw from the GOP but I know a lot of people that think anyone with money is ""awesome"

[Peacetrain]

8. You would think the people in the GOP would take notice of what happens

to anyone who gets close to Trump... they get destroyed , and yet they are drawn to him like bugs to a fire

[biocube]

4. Good.

Throw your money away on this instead of buying out politicians.

[Peacetrain]

9. You know the richest man in the world could easily bankrupt himself

[allegorical oracle]

5. Any party he would form is neither fish nor fowl. Trumpsters don't like him because he

was mean to the king. The Dems find him too shady. And everybody hates his DOGE chainsaw. But he'll find some leftover Rand Paul types to give it a try.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yeah, more libertarianism on steroids...nt

[Peacetrain]

10. We are only 6 months into this administration..

and the damage being done is just jaw dropping.. and Musk has made some powerful enemies me thinks..

[Greyhead]

6. I see this as a win

65 to 35 in favor of new party. How many Dems are left on twitter?
It is ripe with magats. I don’t see many Dems that would leave our party to go with muskrat. We are pissed at our so called leadership not at the core(us) of the Democratic Party.
Hopefully if he succeeds it will split the repuke party, like Ross Perot did in 92. Without him we would have had no Clinton and a second term of bush 1.

[Peacetrain]

11. It could be interesting.. 3 years and 5 months to go yet..

[Waterguy]

15. Most Informed went with Kamala in 2024

I have to think that most informed people voted for Kamala. I think the most informed voters will go with the Democratic Party in 2026 without any doubt. Many moderates and traditional Republicans tend to stray away from MAGA which is Trump's party now.
And so I agree that Elon's party will only take from MAGA - which is what they call a big open tent party for uninformed voters.
The open tent MAGA's are far-right nationalists, far-right Christians, and I don't know what you call the folks who chose RFK Jr as their Dream candidate.
Elon's still dangerous since he owns a social media, space and a satellite company and is basically a Nazi.

[valleyrogue]

29. My understanding is Perot took more from Clinton than from Bush I.

After all, both candidates were the anti-Bush candidates.

[Oopsie Daisy]

12. Maybe Nina Turner would like to help. She needs a new grift.

[madinmaryland]

14. Don't forget Susan Sarandon and Jill Stein.

[Oopsie Daisy]

16. I wish I could.

It makes my blood boil to remember how many embraced and echoed their lies.

[creon]

13. it lookd like an "ego trip" to me

It appears that Musk thinks that he is something really special.

[Red Mountain]

17. Maybe he can put together a dream team......

Jill Stein, Andrew Yang are you listening?

[Red Mountain]

18. We can call it the

"Taking the Trash Out Party"

[struggle4progress]

19. I do hope they plan to self-deport to Mars

[KentuckyWoman]

20. Count me in the pure theatre crowd.

The set up is we will have a choice between the Elon party or the Trump party.

Excuse my crude talk but a dirty diaper stinks the same regardless of pampers or huggies.

[bdamomma]

21. What

the "Billionaires/Millionaires Party. STFU Muskrat!!!!!!!!!

[enid602]

22. Elon vs Trump

More like the ‘Dumb and Dumber’ party.

[dalton99a]

23. Party mascot: Cybertruck

[msongs]

24. since it is not democrats we shouldnt be hearing much about it on democratic Underground nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

25. Note to 2024 election denialists:

If Musk actually hacked and rigged the 2024 election for Trump, then we should expect his new party to sweep the midterms, and gain majorities in both the house and senate.

Speaker Musk, anyone?

(If he had the power to rig it, why wouldn’t he use it to install himself as speaker of the house? Who would stop him and tell the world he rigged it for Trump in 2024? Trump? Who else would have the knowledge and evidence to blow the lid off the whole scam in order to neuter this new party?)

Unless, of course, he didn’t rig the election.

[Takket]

26. like this ketamine fueled psychopath has the patience to run a political party lol

but if he can get some people to syphon votes off of MAGA in some close races... hey... i'm here for it

[Midnight Writer]

30. This will be another cult-like, sycophantic shitshow.

Musk does not know how to deal with people, does not know how to build and maintain a coalition, will immediately alienate anyone who does not go along with his whimsical agenda (an agenda that will change minute by minute as his "mind like a storm" jumps from one place to another like a pinball in a machine).

Sounds like Trump, no?

But whatever the hell kind of charisma Trump has, Musk hasn't. I can't imagine him getting support from the Trump coalition after Trump has publicly humiliated him. And Democrats will not forget his disastrous DOGE adventure.

He'll play with this, it won't be as easy as he thinks, and he will give up and go back to conning governments out of money with his vaporware passenger ships to Mars and tunnels under the oceans.

[GaYellowDawg]

31. Good!

He couldn't find a better way to burn through massive amounts of money! Maybe he can just about bankrupt himself in the process.

[cadoman]

32. do not underestimate his ability to create a more inclusive and better-run party...

Existing party infrastructure is steeped in precincts, committees, Roberts Rules, time-consuming meetings, paperwork, notarization, fees, clubs, donations, etc.

Newcomers, rather than being invited & welcomed, are perceived as work mules at best, or a threat to existing power structures at worst...

With his funds and technology, Elon could create a party oriented around 80/20 issues and a mobile app for participation. Let party participants vote on the top 5 issues for the platform (allowing for bad ideas to be filtered out), streamline registration, get rid of Roberts Rules bullies..

DNC should be eyeing this and prepare accordingly. It's not just a threat to the RNC.