The America Party Is A Bad Idea...For Elon

Musk's entry into American civic life has been highly positive. But the legalities surrounding his new political party could derail his plans, and his empire.

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by Rod D. Martin
July 10, 2025

As I’ve said for decades, every so often, someone decides that the world is too corrupt to reform. And they start a political party.

This week, our heroic crusader is Elon Musk, perhaps the greatest genius of our time, which makes him susceptible to believing he knows everything about everything.

Sadly, he does not. No one does. But I know a decent amount about this.

Elon inhabits a world in which his word is law, in which his musings move mountains. And thank God he does. He’s changing the world, in multiple directions at once, as though Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan had a baby.

That world is the precise polar opposite of Washington.

Politics runs on consensus-building. Whereas entrepreneurship is almost purely creative — sometimes seemingly ex nihilo, in the oc…