The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.Tech CEO Elon Musk has teased several times the creation of a new party, even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the id...

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  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    58·
    23 hours ago

    Best case scenario is it will split the right wing vote. In Canada, we’re used to it going the other way with conservatives taking advantage of a split left.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Same with the USA, the US Green Party is funded by Conservative PACs such as Badger Values. If there were left unity then the 8 million people who showed up for Biden 2020 would have shown up for Harris 2024, but a lot of people are convinced the DNC aren’t left enough and that primary elections are shams.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.world
      172·
      23 hours ago

      Washington Post columnists said it would probably just capture the “Never Trumper” moderate Republican voters who currently begrudgingly vote Democratic because they understand that the Republican Party is nominating only yes-men and fascists.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.world
          9·
          22 hours ago

          Especially not their opinion column but I’m just posting here because it’s interesting to see what the neoliberals think about it and it’s a good discussion point

          • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Washington Post is Murdoch connected as of December 2023 (new leader and Bezos began to flex his muscles at the paper). I hesitate to call it neoliberal. It’s moved right of that.

            • NateNate60@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 hours ago

              If you actually bother to read it (regularly, not just once or twice on selected columns that you saw posted online), you would not think that. The opinion column is very neoliberal with a hint of libertarianism.

      • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        22 hours ago

        The Dems leaned hard on the never Trumpers for votes last year and you can see where that got them. Elon can have them.

      • someguy3@lemmy.world
        16·
        23 hours ago

        Republican never Trumper that doesn’t vote GOP is likely vanishingly small. They all fall in line.

        It might siphon off the GOP voters that begrudingly fell in line because they bought the Communist Kamala or something, or the ones that needed to see Trump disaster a second time.