Elon Musk publicly mused about creating a new political party this week, an idea that could escalate the billionaire’s feud with his onetime ally President Trump.
Musk first floated the idea on Thursday. In between jabs at Mr. Trump, the billionaire posted a poll to X asking his 220 million followers if they think it’s “time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle.”
A day later, Musk noted that 80% of respondents to the poll backed the idea.
Musk has quite a “tech bro” following (which we don’t see because we don’t live and breathe on Twitter and such), and that group wields enormous psychological influence over the population.
Seems unlikely, but If Musk aligns himself with Peter Theil, Zuckerberg, critical software devs and such more closely, that’s an extremely dangerous platform for Trump. They can sap power from MAGA (and anyone else) with the flip of a switch.
There’s quite a fundamental incompatibility between tech oligarchs and the red meat MAGA base, too, as is already being exposed. It’s going to get much more stark over the next few years.