Americans say they want a third party. Musk can find a delicate takeoff.

“Ad Astra by Aspera”, published Elon Musk on X on Saturday.

It is Latin for “To the Stars Through Hurpherships”, an appropriate currency for many efforts of the multi -loving – whether it was the grok chatbot that made the newspapers last week to spit anti -Semitism in its role as a whirlwind in the opening of Trump 2.0 to its space rockets which have both failed and perceived in the spectacular.

The richest person in the world is not discouraged, because he assumes another intimidating task: creating a viable third party and trying to upset an American political system dominated by the same two parties since the mid -1800s. The announcement by Musk of the America party earlier this month has encountered skepticism, but taking into account his enormous wealth – and a demonstrated desire to sometimes deploy it to be deployed On the mid-term elections of 2026 and beyond cannot be excluded.

“In Musk’s criticism, it is easy to forget how the breadth in the private sector has been unimaginable,” explains Gautam Mukunda, executive researcher of the Yale School of Management. “He is the most successful industrialist in America.”

Mr. Musk has an incessant and external way to think and exploit who has transformed his many companies into important forces. But that does not mean that it can break the iron grip of republican and democrats on the American system. Since the 19th century, candidates for the third -party populist presidential election – in evidence, Robert La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, George Wallace and Ross Perot – have won millions of votes, but ultimately failed to break the system with two parties.

However, in some ways, time is ripe for a new well -funded celebration. Since 2009, a plurality of American voters in Gallup polls has been called “independent”. In 2024, the rupture was 43% independent, 28% republican and 28% democrat.