Sending a man to Mars might be easier than starting a new national political party in the United States.
The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who was the country’s largest known political donation the previous year, now claims he is attempting to accomplish both. Although the goal of interplanetary travel has been slowly advanced for more than two decades, there have been numerous failed attempts to upend the two-party system in American politics over the last few decades.
How serious Mr. Musk is about the new political endeavor and whether it will turn from thoughts on his social media platform into a reality are still unknown. The America Party was created today, he announced on Saturday, but he hasn’t yet registered it with the Federal Election Commission.
Like many of his declarations in the form of tweets, Mr. Musk’s intentions for the new party are unclear. According to two individuals briefed on the discussions, his private discussions about it thus far have been conceptual in nature rather than centered on the specifics of what would be required to make it a reality. However, according to one of the people, some of Mr. Musk’s advisers who have also participated in these early discussions seem more concerned with those specifics and are asking additional specialists for their opinions.
According to Mr. Musk, the America Party will be a brand-new organization with the intention of upending the two major parties’ control over the federal government.
It wouldn’t be the first time he made a bold statement in an X post before walking it back or letting it fade away as he pursued another endeavor, should he eventually grow weary of the concept. Nevertheless, some of Mr. Musk’s ideas that started out as seeming jokes—like his early acquisition of Twitter stock—have resulted in investments that have changed the course of history.
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