(New York) He says he has a plan inspired by ancient Greece. These are perhaps only words, but as they come from the richest man in the world, it is necessary to pay attention to it, because he has the means to take action, and this, from the mid-term elections, in November 2026.
Elon Musk announced on Saturday the creation of the “America party” (America Party) On his social network, a day after having surveyed the subscribers of his account on the opportunity to create a spare path to the two major American political parties.
About 1.2 million Internet users participated in the survey.
“By a factor of 2 against 1, you want a new political party, and you will have it!” “Exclaimed the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X in the afternoon. “When it comes to ruining our country through waste and corruption, we live in a single party system, not in a democracy. Today, the party of America is created to make your freedom. »»
The entrepreneur had promised last week to create his own political training to adopt the adoption by the Congress of One Big Beautiful Bill Act From Donald Trump, whom he had described as “totally insane and destructive”.
He had also threatened to financially support candidates wishing to appear in 2026 against the Republican elected officials who voted for the vast budgetary bill.
Inspired by Antiquity
After announcing the creation of the America’s party, the former ally and “friend” of the Republican president presented on X a battle plan giving believing that he compared to Misminondas, General and Theban statesman who died in 362 BC. J.-C.
“The way we are going to break the unitartite system, it is by using a variant of the way in which Misminondas broke the myth of the invincibility of spartans with leuctres: an extremely concentrated force in a precise place in the battlefield,” noted Musk on X.
“The future strategy should certainly evolve, but it should be noted that Thebes actually dominated Greece for a decade after leuctres,” added the amateur historian.
Elon Musk had explained his strategy in a less grandiose way in a message published on X Friday, the day when Donald Trump promulgated his flagship bill.
“One way to execute this would be to focus laser on only 2 or 3 seats in the Senate and 8 to 10 districts in the House of Representatives,” wrote Musk.
Given the very small legislative margins, this would be enough to serve as a decisive vote on the disputed laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.
Extract from an Elon Musk Publication X
When writing these lines, Elon Musk’s political group was not yet registered with the Federal Electoral Commission. According to the law, the new parties do not have to do so “until they collect or spend money beyond certain thresholds within the framework of a federal election”.
Elon Musk has already shown that he was ready to untie the cords of his scholarship for the political causes that are close to his heart. He spent nearly $ 300 million to help Donald Trump returned to the presidency. This support earned him to be appointed head of the alleged Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), one of the missions of which was to reduce expenses and deficits.
The ex-boss of Doge left the White House at the end of May by claiming savings of 190 billion dollars, a sum clearly lower than the 2000 billion dollars promised.
And he compromised his relationship with Donald Trump a few days later by qualifying his budgetary bill as a “repugnant abomination”, including thousands of billions of dollars with deficits which he promised to generate.
Previous and challenges
Elon Musk would not be the first billionaire in Texas to create his own party. He was preceded on this plan by Ross Perot, founder of the Reform Party in 1995. Three years earlier, in particular by denouncing the Incuuria of the big parties in the face of budgetary deficits and the national debt, the boss of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems had collected 18.9 % of the votes as an independent candidate during the presidential election won by Bill Clinton.
In 1996, he was going to be satisfied with 8.4 % of the votes as presidential candidate of the Reform Party, a harvest than no other independent candidate or a third party gorging the White House has since reached.
Photo Reed Saxon, Associated Press Archives
Ross Perot in 1996
The performance of Ross Perot illustrates the extent of the challenge that Elon Musk says he wants to take up. Having born in South Africa of a South African father and a Canadian mother, the entrepreneur is not himself eligible for the presidency, which is reserved for “American citizens”, as required by the Constitution.
But he seems to believe that his party could repeat the rare feat of a Ventura Jesse, an ex-professional Luter elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 under the banner of the Reform Party.
But the candidates of the party of America would not necessarily need to win a single seat to have an impact on the occasion of the mid-term elections.
They would be enough for them to take votes to one party rather than to the other to influence the results.
However, Collin Anderson does not see a big movement in favor of the party of America pointing on the horizon.
“He could remove from the republican party some of the most technophile and libertarian types, but I do not see any exodus of one or the other of the main parties,” said this political scientist from the New York State University in Buffalo during an interview before Elon Musk’s announcement. “(Mr. Musk) should undergo a serious rehabilitation of his image with Democrats, especially young Democrats. »»
History is not without irony. Not long ago, Elon Musk announced that he would end, at least for a time, to his political contributions. Here he says he wants to embark in an expensive process, thorny obstacles, complex laws and legal challenges.
He says he has a plan. There is no shortage of money. But is it really serious?
