It may be more difficult to create a new political party in the United States that can truly compete with the Democrats and Republicans than to send a person to Mars, writes The New York Times, commenting on Elon Musk's statement on the creation of a new party.
As the article notes, this is an “extremely difficult and expensive“ process that may be more difficult than organizing a manned flight to Mars. Musk, who heads the aerospace company SpaceX, is trying to achieve both goals, but if "work on interplanetary travel is slowly progressing," the publication points out, then attempts by American politicians to break the two-party system in recent decades have not been successful, the publication points out.
In addition, it is still unclear how serious Musk is about his "new political project" and whether he will be able to turn it "from thoughts on social networks into a real" party, the publication believes. According to sources of the newspaper, Musk's talks about his party are still "conceptual" and there is a lack of specifics about what steps should be taken to implement the idea.
On July 5, Musk announced that he would create a political party based on the results of the vote in X. The businessman announced that the purpose of creating the party is "the return of freedom". More than 1.2 million social media users participated in the vote. 65.4% voted for the creation of a new party. On July 6, the entrepreneur filed an application for registration of a political party with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), it will be called the party “America“.