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There’s no “middle way”; the Democrats are the middle way. The biggest unrepresented faction would be the Left, but even if they were big enough to win (they aren’t) they’d just pull people from the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Money isn’t a message, money is a tool. There’s no amount of money you could spend that would convince 50% of the population to start eating literal shit sandwiches. A few idiots or freaks might hear, “Shit sandwiches, Mmmm!” and decide to give it a go, but that won’t win an election. Even Trump had to find a message that resonated with the voters, even if that message was a lie.
I’m talking about a message to congress critters.
Well, then, see my earlier comments. Who would give up a win for the Dems or the GOP, to be an also-ran for Musk? Maybe if they wanted to retire anyways, they might run one last campaign as a spoiler candidate for a ton of cash up-front, but that still won’t give Musk any seats in Congress once the dust settles.
I sort of forgot what thread I was in re-new America Party. I’m thinking that Musk may be able to primary congress critters by giving their opponent $$$$$…
You’ll never buy off a sitting republican I don’t think. They’ll say sure, take the money and still try to get their power back.
No problem, TroutMan
If we take the position that the average person is more purple than red or blue, then pretty much any place that is a “solid R” or “solid D” is, effectively, fragile to a centrist.
To be sure, a solid R district probably does lean to a redder shade of purple and so your ideal centrist would lean Republican. a blue centrist is going to get his ass kicked. Your goal isn’t to swing the people over to the opposite side, it’s to dial the candidate down to the same level as the majority.
South Dakota might easily accept an Arnold Schwarzennegar running for the America Party over Mike Rounds, that guy who tried to enact legislation in violation of the Bill of Rights with his Israel Anti-Boycott Act.
If you’re America party, you don’t really care about sapping the Democrats. You care about winning America. If you’ve got the strongest candidate for the local populace, then you’ve got the strongest candidate. What happens to those other people is their problem.
While this is possibly the best case scenario, I don’t think it’s going to be enough. Yes, there are a non-zero number of Republicans who have lost their faces recently, and you’re 100% correct that almost all of them won’t admit their error and vote (D) - but I also don’t think most of them will vote (AP). They’re just more likely to not vote at all IMHO. So they won’t appreciable draw off the (R) vote.
One thing that could be effective though, is if the AP (American Party in case it isn’t clear) uses Xitter’s clout and easily manipulated algorithms (see the recent changes in Grok) to flood the field with propaganda against Republican candidates, it might suppress the (R) vote just enough to let a Democrat win an otherwise close race. To be hoped at least.
Why don’t we just call it the Urectum Party…
This might be a golden opportunity for good ol’ Newt Gingrich. Musk needs visionary like Newt and their space interests might coincide. I believe Newt was pushing the idea of a colony on the Moon, and making it the 51st state.
Gingrich/Giuliani 2028!
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Setting up the perfect conflict with Trump over what will be the 51st state!
The Dual Ghouls. A truly great snarl nickname the Ds should surely do all they can to popularize.