Political Commentary on the 'American Party' Newly Launched by King of the Billionaires Elon Musk
Who Knows, Who Knows, Who Knows What in Effect This Bodes and Which Way Its Wind Blows for American Politics in the Near Term, for Sure???
New update, as of 07-10-2025
If the America Party that has been launched by billionaire Elon Musk takes root and is viable and credible in election politics in the USA, as an ideological offshoot of the Republican Party (the GOP), it will compete with, suck strength from, split up (or detrimentally siphon off an impactful degree of the GOP’s grassroots voting bloc and draw of independent and swing voters), weaken, shrink and undermine the competitiveness of the Trumpian-MAGA GOP in election politics in the USA -- with a probable adverse election effect on the GOP akin to that billionaire Ross Perot and his Reform Party had on the GOP in the 1992 US presidential and national elections. For the GOP and Trump, it is an election-politics foil and spoiler. To their opposition, it is a bitter-sweet, love-hate conundrum of a godsend and possible salvation at this time of precarious constitutional democracy in USA politics, in view of top GOP federal officials, in all 3 branches of the federal government, speaking and acting brazenly in breach and threatened breach of the US Constitution (of our constitutional citizenry-unalienable-bill-of-rights republic) and their oath of office in loyalty to it, with smug and arrogant impunity.
The America Party expectedly will be worse on the GOP than was billionaire presidential candidate Ross Perot and his Reform Party in November of 1992 because it won't be the presidency that this party is imminently out to capture but it is seats in the House of Representatives and Senate of the US Congress in the US midterm elections of November of 2026 that it is seeking first.
Political elections history reflects that political party weak candidacy incumbents and challenger candidates and political party-leaning weak-link districts or states are the most vulnerable and susceptible to contestation. The insurgent America Party undoubtedly knows or will shortly come to know this, as does the Democratic Party well know it, and will leverage it to its benefit. It will do so knowing that the US Congressional GOP's and Trump's legislated post-Big Beautiful Bill and Trump-tariffs' adverse-economic-effects fallout, immediate and politically strategically and self-defensively scheduled by the majority GOP membership of both houses of the US Congress to phase in and be painfully most felt following the November of 2026 midterm US Congressional and national elections, differentially has heavily struck or is legislatively structured to soon strike production, agricultural and retail businesses and pink- and blue-collar workers across all red, purple and blue states and the within them rural, urban and suburban geographies of the USA, and so will expose MAGA-GOP members of both houses of the US Congress to their diminished electability from the voting anger and backlash against them of these victims.
Elon Musk, in saying that he would run challenger candidates against and to replace congressional members of the House and Senate of the US Congress who chose to vote, and actually did vote, for economics incompetent and personal serial bankruptcy businessman US President Donald Trump and his 'Big Beautiful Federal Government, MAGA Fiscal Policy Bill' for supersizing the national debt and budget deficit at the cost of decimating the social safety net and scientific national security infrastructure of the USA and bankrupting the USA (governmentally, if not also, unintentionally by highly possible collateral damage, the economy) in order to attempt to pay for, or fund, and make permanent hefty and special tax cuts favoring millionaires, billionaires and big business, excluding the green-and-clean energy business sector, has said in effect that he will be fielding a slate of candidates, now of this new the America Party, to compete for those seats up for reelection in the House and Senate of the US Congress, which happen to be GOP seats since it was exclusively GOP members of both houses of the US Congress who voted for the bill to make it law, in the November of 2026 midterm US Congressional elections.
**Musk is not much of a positive alternative to Trump, but he is the better of these two bad choices within the whacko MAGA sadomasochist, oligarchy-populist madcap political camp in that he is a tried-and-true enormously successful green-and-clean energy tech doer-producer and leader on his own initiative, naturally as a person, to his credit, and the America Party through his leadership and influence in it, very importantly, can at least effectively advocate for, promote and protect the viability and advancement of this industry in the chambers of the US Congress as well as in right-wing USA and beyond it, in the best interest of our planetary and climatic health, nationally and globally.**
For a jogging of the memory function of mind-wiped MAGA voters who selectively forgot it in their United States of Amnesia social-political bubble, get this: at the end of Trump's first term as US president in January of 2021, he left the US economy in a wreck with mass business failures, understocked stores and store shelves and disrupted and broken-down domestic and international commerce supply chains for supplying goods to stores and businesses in general, soaring price inflation for products and services, spiked unemployment, the end to the longest, on autopilot, boom economy in US history that he inherited, and tried to claim credit for it while it lasted under his mismanagement, from termed-out President Barack Obama as the elected successor US president to President Obama, and well more than a million casualties in Covid-19 pandemic-related hospitalizations and deaths, of which there were more than a million deaths alone.
Already approximately midway within the first six months of Trump’s return as the incumbent US president on January 20, 2025, there is a variable per exporter foreign nation and import-product-type comprehensive, called an "across-the-board," national sales tax, the same as and also termed a such consumption tax, in the name of a tariff or tariffing and tariffs, on all imports coming into the USA that is/are in net effect paid by US user, producer and distributor (wholesale and retail) companies and retail consumers -- that is, ultimately paid by the US citizenry taxpayers and their taxpayer entities. It is/they are a de facto, as just said, US presidentially imposed, federal, national sales tax and substantial new and extra subtraction of money from the citizenry's incomes, upon each citizen's or citizenry entity, directly or indirectly, upon almost every purchase, in addition to their federal income taxes as well as and in addition to miscellaneous other federal taxes and fees and state income taxes and state and local sales. This new tax regime of variable yet across-the-board presidential tariffs constituting a national sales concurrent with and in addition to traditional and ongoing federal, state and local government income and miscellaneous taxes and fees, is largely for paying for the tax cuts of Trump's and the US Congressional MAGA-GOP’s federal budget and solvency busting big and special tax cuts favoring millionaires, billionaires and big business and to super fund US national defense and fund US support of the military and civilian society of foreign nation Israel, the latter with the US presidency, Congress and treasury serving as Israel's personal and direct servile and philanthropic banker in preference and priority to and over the US taxpayers' and domestic citizenry needs and common good, in which US taxpayers are the source of this favoritism, permanent financial support of a foreign nation with US funding tax money.
The statistically pruned and weighted realistic average of this new Trump-tariff-based national sales tax is a new and high extra tax on consumer and affected business incomes and is and will further drive up all-around prices for consumers and costs for businesses and consequential inflation and reduce buyer, household and business purchasing power and business profits and compel business workforce layoffs. The mainstream consumer middle class (with household incomes less than $500,000 annually, mostly well below it) and under class, are already experiencing these mounting adverse economic effects. Trump and the MAGA Republicans will ravage and crash the US economy again, like Trump has and they invariably routinely have again and again before, opening the way for another Democratic Party president to repair and restore the economy, if our constitutional bill of rights republic form of government survives intact until the November of 2026 US Congressional and national elections and our economy can be repaired this time around, starting from January 20, 2029, which, if this happens, for it to be followed by Republicans running a candidate for US president in November of 2032 to cut taxes again skewed primarily to the benefit of high liquidity cash-value multimillionaires and billionaires, like Trump's Big Hunk-of-Bunk Bill for tax cut favoring multimillionaires and billionaires, super funding the US military and sugar-daddy supporting foreign nation Israel because its leaders and people say it is financial sugar-daddy USA's best friend and is, cringe, a democracy, entailing increasing the US national debt and budget deficit again by the Republicans that they complain so much about but are their cause.
When the crash or deep slump of the US economy comes, the private equity firms, hedge-funds companies and major stock-market short sellers, like the bandits and vulture capitalists they can be or are, will feast and glut, at big bargain acquisitions and gains, on the losses.
After Trump signed into law July 4, 2025 his wish-list ballyhooed Big Beautiful Bill legislation passed by the GOP majority memberships of both houses of the US Congress, you learn from public legislative, financial and economic experts and analysts in the news media that there are disqualifying income amount thresholds for being eligible for tax-free tip and overtime earnings and that there is an exemption amount of income from taxation on Social Security pension income, an income qualifying threshold, for seniors. None of these sources of income is/are tax free for all (but may be limitedly entirely tax free for some, with definitively low income), as deceptively and falsely implied and publicized during the Trump-candidacy presidential election campaign of 2024.
Musk's indicated currently personal DOGE is apparently now venturing to conduct a cleanup and cleanout of the waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, the breathing, walking, talking and posturing [politician] kind, in the US Congress and White House, too, and soon.
May be further updated.