Elon Musk’s America Party has a future
Despite naysayers on the Right and the Left, Musk's push to create the America Party could have a major impact in bringing the country together. That's why both sides are fighting against it so hard
By Ray Hanania
FREE/The America Party, Elon Musk, Third Party/Monday, July 7, 2025
It doesn’t matter why someone comes up with an idea. It’s what that idea is, and what it potentially can do.
In his very public and sometimes bitter break with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has come up with a great idea to launch a Third Party called “The America Party.”
It’s true, no Third Party has ever won the presidency. But Third Parties have had a tremendous impact on national elections, and especially on the election of a president.
We just saw that happen in the November 2024 election when the Third Party, the Green Party, led by Dr. Jill Stein, pulled the rug out from under Democrat Kamala Harris and handed the victory to Trump.
Stein never had a chance of becoming president, but her Party managed to undermine Harris and the Democrats specifically because of their abandonment of their principles over foreign policy, human rights, and freedom in the Middle East.
Trump’s ego prevents him from acknowledging the truth of the election, that it wasn’t so much that he and Republicans won, but that Harris and Democrats lost.
That’s a characteristic of American politics. Voters sometimes go to the polls inspired by great candidates, as they have done with Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, and vote FOR a candidate.
And just as often, voters go to the polls and hold their nose, voting AGAINST someone, as they have done many times nationally and even locally.
Trump “won” because voters rejected Harris, and the Democratic Party had politically collapsed before everyone’s eyes.
So what role can Musk’s America Party play in upcoming elections?
In today’s polarized political atmosphere, a centrist, middle-class driven party could do a lot to further weaken the Democrats and, more importantly, pull the rug out from under Trump’s MAGA Republican stranglehold on Congress.
All the America Party needs to do is attract about 20 congressional districts from both the Democrats and the Republicans, and maybe one or two states, to shatter the stranglehold Trump has over national politics.
The Democrats have shown they lack the ability to stop Trump’s extremist political mandate, which is driven by both some good ideas but many more lies, exaggerations, and expressions of outright hatred.
Yes, more hatred has come out of the White House under Trump than from any other previous presidency.
Trump just can’t stop himself because his ego is unbridled and out of control.
Two Republicans voted against Trump’s massive 900-page budget distortion, a mishmash of good ideas and financial lies that fuels the National Debt to even greater heights and contradicts itself when it comes to tax breaks for the middle class and seniors.
The budget gives and it takes when it comes to benefits. And that is obvious by the very fact that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cost taxpayers more than $3.3 trillion over the next few years.
How can you save people money when you pass a budget that spends $3.3 trillion dollars more? Where do you think that $3.3 trillion comes from? It comes from the Taxpayers who not only will pay more in taxes to the Federal government, but who also will lose spending power because of the continued rise in National Debt, which drives up inflation.
Gasoline prices have only gone down “relatively,” but are far higher today than they were two years ago. Grocery costs have nearly doubled. Insurance premium costs have doubled. The cost of everything has gone up significantly. It’s all driven upwards by increased Federal spending and by the steep rise of the National Debt.
The only person who has been warning us about the impact of continuing to raise the National Debt has been Elon Musk.
The National Debt has risen not just under Trump but under Democrats. It has risen steadily but soared under President Obama and continued under Trump with a huge surge during his last year of his first term. Now, Trump, the exaggerator and big spender, is pushing that National Debt even higher.
What America needs is something that will keep the rug pulled out from under the Democrat Party but will pull the rug out from under the Republican Party, too.
The America Party can do that, denying both parties a majority to ram through one-sided, partisan legislation.
The Trump bill passed on the very principle of partisan division. Every Democrat member of Congress, plus two Republicans, voted against the Trump bill. It only received Republican support, reflecting the cancerous political divide that America is suffering.
The vote in the House was 218 to 214. The vote in the Senate was 51 to 50, with Vice President J.D. Vance voting to break the tie.
Click here to view the House vote on July 3.
Click here to view the Senate vote on July 1.
There is no compromise or reason to compromise when both Democrats and Republicans refuse to compromise, and that is the problem the America Party can help change.
If no major party controls the House or the Senate, then the two sides will be forced to work together and bring the country together.
All Elon Musk and the America Party need to do is pull away enough votes to do just that, deny Trump the stranglehold that is the foundation of his power.
A dozen Republicans expressed concerns with Trump’s bill, and Trump’s threats forced 10 of them to fall back in line despite their concerns.
In our polarized political atmosphere of two separate political worlds, our Congress members have forgotten who they work for — a partisan political system or the American people.
Trump and all of the Republicans who are blasting Elon Musk and his third-party plan know exactly the threat it poses for them. Otherwise, if the America Party was not a threat, they would simply ignore Musk. But they can’t because the America Party is a threat to the polarized, hate-driven divisions that is the foundation of today’s American politics.
Trump even indirectly acknowledged that impact in a post he made on July 6 on his hate-driven social network, Truth Social.
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely “off the rails,” essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States - The System seems not designed for them. The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds! Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth-running “machine” that just passed the biggest Bill of its kind in the History of our Country,” Trump wrote, unleashing more economic retribution against Musk, the wealthiest man in the world.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114808616176041421
Trump’s comments reflect an inherent fear of what the America Party can do to the slim margin of control MAGA has over this nation.
Both the Republican and the Democrat parties need to be brought to their political needs. Both parties are led by weak and ineffective leaders who only care about themselves, rather than the foundational principles that have made America great.
The Democrats have closed their eyes to rising crime and support undermining some aspects of the U.S. Constitution when it comes to immigration, and have turned their backs on Human Rights. They care more about race politics and race needs than about the needs of the entire country.
The Republicans have turned their backs on the poor, the middle class and are solidly behind further strengthening the filthy rich. They have forsaken the fundamental principles of the Rule of Law, our responsibility to help the poor, who, by the way, are not just minorities who have been discarded by the GOP but veterans and seniors.
Both Republicans and Democrats have flaws. Elon Musk’s America Party just might be the answer. He has the money to ensure wins in many congressional districts, a force of political disruption that just might wake this country up and return us to a balanced, more centrist political momentum.
Right now, this country is being run by extremists on both sides.
The Center needs to wake up. The Middle Class needs to take power away from the extremes on both sides.
Common sense and a rejection of hypocrisy need to return.
I support the America Party, and so should you.
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Click here to read the Trump budget bill
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As always, it's great to hear your take on the current affairs of our neighborhood and nation, Ray. Like yourself, I want the United States to come to its senses and solve the problems plaguing our country. I want to hear what Musk has to say but I'm disgusted by his abuses with DOGE in Washington and buying votes in Wisconsin. You and I are resilient members of the American middle class but after 45 years of the trickle-down experiment our resilience is at the limits now. We in the middle class have integrity. It remains to be seen if our elected officials have the same integrity they demand from us. Please continue doing the important work you do, Ray! Your voice is needed now more than ever.