A question posed on X this week by owner Elon Musk on whether there should be a new political party in the United States that represents the “middle” has received over five million responses, with the overwhelming majority supporting the idea.
“Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?” Musk asked in an X poll published from his account Thursday. His question follows a recent series of public exchanges between Musk and President Donald Trump that began earlier this week.
According to Musk’s poll, over 5.3 million X users had participated as of this article, with 80.5% expressing support for creating a new party and 19.5% opposed.
Until recently, Musk served as a senior adviser to President Trump, acting as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Tensions between the two became apparent after Musk publicly criticized Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The situation escalated into a public feud, with Trump calling Musk a “man who lost his mind,” and Musk, in turn, distancing himself from the administration while expressing support for new leadership.
With thanks to Darryl Perry for the tip.
I may have misunderstood the clarification, and perhaps links to Ballot Access News are still allowed here after all.
See the discussion at https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2025/06/polite-note/
If there was some other issue with my initial removed comment here, I don’t know what it possibly could have been. It was literally just the link to a parallel discussion at BAN, and my opinion that some of the comments there made good points that might be of interest to readers here. That was literally it.
My follow-up comment on this discussion, asking whether copy and paste of those comments from BAN would be accepted instead, was also retroactively deleted.
That same question remains published for now, but not answered, on the discussion linked above.
I’d like to post the BAN link again, or if that’s not allowed cut and paste the actual comments , but as of now I’m still not clear which of the two, if either, I’m allowed to do here.
I await further clarification from site management.
That was one of the many points people made at the link that I posted which was removed, and which I thought would benefit interested readers of this parallel discussion. Unfortunately, anyone who wants to know what the other ones were will now have to find it without a link.
Phillies has now clarified on the separate discussion about comment removals that links to Ballot Access News are no longer allowed in comments (and presumably also articles) here even though the two sites served as frequent news sources for each other from the first day IPR went up on May 20, 2008 until at least as recently as May 20, 2025 on the PR quoting BAN end (I have not checked the other direction yet). Comments linking BAN were allowed here at least as recently as the following day, May 21.
There was no announcement before any links to BAN began being erased in comments, but it has now been clarified in a comment that links to BAN are indeed no longer allowed. As of yet, all additional and follow up questions are still lingering, but that’s the one question that has been answered..
Everybody loves the idea of a new political party until that new political party turns out to not be perfectly aligned with their own views.
My comment from June 6 below is an orphaned addendum to a since removed comment containing a link to a parallel discussion at Ballot Access News. In my opinion several people in that discussion made various points that would be of interest for those participating in this one to consider, although of course there was a lot of other stuff to wade through, as there always is there.
At the time I posted it, I was unaware that links to Ballot Access News are not allowed here anymore. They were allowed at least as recently as May 21. The two sites have quoted and linked each other countless times in each of the last 17 years since this site went up.
As of this time, it has not yet been made clear whether any and all links to Ballot Access News are now forbidden here, but myself and my friend Curious are trying to get some clarification on a separate discussion here about that incident and several other comment removals. In the meantime this comment is just to clarify what my orphaned June 6 comment below which as of now is still up here refers to. I hope this is allowed.
At least one or two of those are about Angela’s claims about how easy it is to take over libertarians. 2022 didn’t just come out of the blue. She either didn’t pay attention before that or doesn’t have a great memory, take your pick.
Former LNC Chair Angela McArdle retweeted with the comment: “You should just take over the Libertarian Party. It’s not hard.”
Notions of what constitute the “middle” vary widely.
It’s an older image I created earlier this year featuring elements generally associated with both Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. The Shiba Inu is a nod to Kabosu, whose likeness Musk has frequently referenced throughout his history, while the dollar coin serves as the department’s current logo.
I don’t understand the graphic of the dog and dollar sign wallpaper.