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“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. By a factor of 2-to-1 you want a new political party, and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.”  With that, the world’s richest man—freshly excommunicated from Team Trump—pledged to bulldoze the 169-year-old duopoly that has run America since the telegraph was “cutting-edge.” He’s calling it the America Party. From first buddy to sworn enemy Only eight months ago Musk was basically Trump’s Minister of Cool: dancing at rallies, parking a four-year-old “Little X” on the Oval Office rug, and bankrolling the campaign to the tune of $277 million. Trump rewarded him with the jokey-sounding but terrifyingly real Department of Government Efficiency—“Doge.” Musk slashed 20 percent of federal headcount, bragged about “saving $190 billion,” and promptly triggered a Congressional Budget Office report suggesting his cuts cost taxpayers $135 billion in knock-on chaos.  The bromance imploded in May when Musk quit Doge and torched Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” a deficit-ballooning tax-and-spend monster projected to add $3 trillion over ten years. Trump signed it anyway on July 4, draping himself in fireworks and fiscal denial. Cue Musk’s poll the next morning: “Should we create the America Party?” 1.25 million users clicked—65 percent said yes. Twenty-four hours later, the party sprang fully formed from the billionaire’s keyboard like Athena from Zeus’s skull. Trump, posting on Truth Social, is no longer Elon Musk’s biggest fan A party of one (for now) Important caveat: as of this writing no paperwork has hit the Federal Election Commission-otron. Until Musk spends or raises more than $5,000 for a federal race, America Party is just an edgy Twitter handle.  Also, Musk can’t run for president—South African birth certificate,…

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