Only a few weeks after he was dramatic out with US President Donald Trump, the richest man in the world announced that he is launching a new political party. According to Elon Musk through X, he founded the American party and invoiced it as a challenge for the Republicans and Democrats.
“You want a new political party and you will have it!” Mr Musk said earlier this month. “When it comes to the bankruptcy of our country with waste and transplant, we live in a system with one party, not democracy. Nowadays the America party is formed to give you your freedom back.”
Mr. Musk hopes that the new organization will have the power to influence the future of American politics, because he has proposed running candidates for two or three senate seats and no fewer than 10 house districts. He believes that the recording of a small number of seats would “be sufficient to serve as the decisive mood about controversial laws”. However, serious doubts have been collected about whether the New America Party will change American politics as Mr. Musk believes it will do that.
With the entire concept of the America party that comes together in just a few weeks, it is no surprise that Mr. Musk has encountered various teething problems. Americanparty.com, for example, has already been registered with someone else, who is reportedly trying to sell the domain for $ 6.9 million (£ 5.1 million). In the meantime, on X, who owns the richest man in the world, @Americaparty has already been taken, so the new party was forced to choose @Americapartyx.
Despite the fact that, according to Bernard Tamas, professor of political sciences at Valdosta State University and author of the demise and rebirth of American third parties, there are consistently strong support for an alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties The guardianHe sees “no evidence that you are going to win another party in the congress and can actually have an impact in the government”.
“It is not only the money that Democrats and Republicans have. They have all the resources. They have the money. They have 150 years of structure. They have all professional politicians, and they have all the consultants, and they all have Madison Avenue advertising companies that work for them.”
The US has a sleek two -party system in which all, or almost all, chosen officials belong to the Republican or Democratic parties. In such systems, minor or third parties rarely win chairs in the legislative power, certainly nothing above the success that Mr Musk represents. During the elections last year, candidates from the Libertarian Party, the Green Party and the People’s Party all tried in vain to stop winning Mr Trump or his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.
“In terms of the parties that really had a big impact, they did not win any seats,” said Profile Tamas. “The task of third parties is disruption. It is to stick as a. It is to cause pain.”
The professor explained that as the Republican party continues to the right of the political spectrum with his Maga direction, with anyone in the party in the congress willing to challenge Mr Trump, there is the “perfect opening” for a third party. “However, you are not going to replace them,” he added. ‘What you do is that you attack them for this. You try to pull them back to the middle.
“This is how the third parties are always successful. The idea is that you hurt them, and what they do, if it works, they are back to something that reflects more the audience wants, or is about the problems that the third party addresses.”
It is also unclear what the party will stand for the growing national debt of the Republican Party. So far, Mr. Musk has refused to work out the ‘controversial laws’ that his politicians would challenge and there is no party platform or manifesto.
Finally, Mr. Musk would have approached eccentric political advisers such as Curtis Yarvin, a right-wing technical blogger who claimed that American democracy has led his run and the country must be run instead by a dictator-like CEO. There is also the problem that the X and SpaceX owner are becoming more and more unpopular. A survey Last week it discovered that 60% of Americans have an unfavorable picture of Mr. Musk. Finally, Mr. Musk, who was born outside the US, is not eligible to go for the US presidency and did not say who will lead the party.
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