Posted on 06/06/2025 6:00:23 PM PDT by hardspunned
The bromance between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seems to be over.
And now Musk is flirting with the idea of new party that could represent "the 80% in the middle," he posted on X.
But who would join Musk-led party? And, can a third party actually succeed?
Republicans, Democrats and Independents like Musk as much — or as little — as they like Trump.
In April, before the feud between the president and the world’s richest person began, approval ratings for Trump and Musk were very similar, according to multiple polls.
For instance, an April poll by the University of California-Riverside, showed similar approval rates for the both of them across the political spectrum.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Trump will do miraculous things enhancing revenue. He will never cut total spending. NEVER!
Which state will RFK, Jr. tap for his senatorial run? That’s 2 of 5.
The democrats have their 50% of the voters and the right splits the other 50% between themselves, America becomes a one party nation.
80% in the middle? That’s some serious drugs Elon is on.
A third party is just more BS
Dark Elon only needs 5 and 25 to gum up everything. They could run as Dems or pubbies and caucus with the Musketeers.
We all know what happens when you drag a hundred billion dollar bill through the DC trailer park.
It’s going to be named the Lithium Party.
I don’t know what you were trying to say, what did all that mean?
Elon isn’t angry at Trump. He is angry that when he cane into the admin to SLOVE a financial problem the dems and their cohorts abused, mocked, threatened and harassed him. He is angry that his efforts to help save America were not appreciated. The dems destroyed his momentum.
Elon is doing so much to help the world and the dems destroyed him. Hope all you dems die of things like Parkinson’s disease and things like that that Elon is helping to cure. He has a brain chip to stop the shaking. It work’s and yet dems want to destroy him. I hope you all die of the cures that MIGHT have helped.
Same w abortion. How many of the babies you so flagrantly MURDERED could have been the person who discovered cures for the world’s diseases.
Dems have NO VISION and NEVER help the people. They just HATE.
Third party always benefits the Democrats. It gave America two terms of Clinton who never hit 50%.
“And, can a third party actually succeed?”
At this point in time, no. There have been a number of parties over history that have tried to be viable, mostly conservative, and they have failed to gain traction because of party dominance of the republican and democrat footholds. Pus, with Trump’s current popularity and the liberals failure to sell their product, about the only thing that will go with Musk would be hard line liberals. So they would come from a piece of the vote Trump wasn’t getting anyway. But, Musk could split the vote and offer either of the current parties a step up depending on how dissatisfied the liberals are with their party and how much damage people like Graham, Paul, and the normal Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski lunacy. About the only thing Musk will do is create further separation of ideas and policies being created.
wy69
“”””A third party is just more BS””””
And a lot of BS there is, and what we really need is a substantial leftwing 3rd party that can always carry 5 or 10% of the democrat vote.
Go Green Party, Go Bernie Sanders, Go Ralph Nader.
“As of January 2025, there were at least 55 distinct ballot-qualified political parties in the United States. There were 238 state-level parties.”
https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States
3rd parties have not have much luck in this country and while Elon has some great attributes but he is not exactly a people person or a politician.
Don’t see this going anywhere.
Yahoo is a DEMOCRAT Liberal Leftist Propaganda outlet
Third parties will always fail without runoff elections.
It is called Make America Great Again.
The US is his 3rd country.
A third party might work better in Canada or South Africa.
Yahoo is orgasmic at the prospect
Two things Elon will never do. 1. Start a third party. 2. Go to Mars.
Musk should stick to technology.
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