Almost everyone right of center who knows anything about politics knows it’s probably a good thing that Republicans managed to cobble together enough of a coalition to pass President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. We need funding to implement Trump’s agenda and, like it or not, the only way to obtain that funding without having to beat a Senate filibuster was to use the admittedly cumbersome budget reconciliation process. In the end, we got a bill with crucial financing, but also lots of awful things we didn’t want thanks to the need to compromise with too many Republican squishes. It wasn’t pretty, but it was necessary, and despite my reservations I’m glad it passed.

Sure, there was principled opposition from Republican deficit hawks like Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, but in their defense I believe they were looking to make the bill better, not politically torch the Republican Party for not agreeing with them.

Billionaire and former DOGE head Elon Musk, on the other hand, is on a whole other spectrum. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that while he may know everything about rockets, electric cars, and running successful businesses, he knows absolutely nothing about politics. Now, the man who doesn’t seem to understand even the most rudimentary aspects of how a closely divided government gets things done wants to upend the entire American two-party system by creating a third major political party.

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