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Elon Musk’s America Party: Democrats will never recover, Republicans will thrive

You can imagine how it was for Elon Musk. Many believe that he was befriending President Trump to ensure the future of electric cars. However, once Tesla suffered a significant loss in market share because Musk was associated with MAGA, the shareholders became very concerned.  Then, when the Big Beautiful Bill came out, it seemed as though Musk had not influenced Trump at all.  Musk has been a Democrat for years and has even called himself a socialist.  So all this MAGA stuff was new to him, and he was losing employees at his companies because of his political affiliation.  So I understand Musk’s need to distance himself from Trump because it was hurting his companies, and the fun wore off.  I do think he was sincerely a MAGA supporter, but the DOGE effort was much more difficult, and the government spending was much worse than he understood it to be. The criticism that there wasn’t a trillion dollars in savings found in those first couple of months was something he couldn’t deal with.  Tesla dealerships were being bombed by radical Democrats, people who had formerly supported Musk. Not that he felt Trump had abandoned him on the EV mandate.   From his point of view, it was all for nothing, and he lost billions of dollars in the process, with the added consequence of losing market share in his brand.  However, the EV car mandate was never going to be implemented during the Trump administration, and the critics of Musk were never going to let him live it down.  I understand his anger; it costs a lot of money to have values in the world, and that is a price that Musk just isn’t willing to pay.  He was a converted personality who moved from Democrat to MAGA.  So, none of this fighting is in his soul.  And when things got rough, he wavered. 

But with all this fear of a third party being created and that it’s going to rot out the Republican Party, that’s not how it is.  Elon Musk’s America Party is likely to turn out to be another DOGE, an ambitious project that has a lot more political reality to it than will ultimately work in his favor.  The Republican Party has already gone through a renovation period, and it is now the MAGA Party, and that’s how it’s going to emerge over these next four years.  It’s the Democrats that have the problems, and they are now going through what the Republican Party went through during the last thirty years.  I remember it well because I was part of that change in the Republican Party and I can say with confidence that Musk’s America Party will split the Democrat Party in two, and even then, many will not join because their lives will be so good under President Trump, that it will stay a fringe effort that never really gets much traction.  When George H.W. Bush was in the White House, right after Reagan, he wasn’t very effective, and the Reform Party started as a response under Ross Perot.  And I was one of the very first members, and I had a front row seat to how it formed.  And over the next decade, people like Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump joined the party to try to run as kind of independent candidates alongside mainstream Republicans.  As a result, Democrats had a period where they won majorities because Republicans were splitting their votes. 

The Reform Party evolved into the Tea Party, and again, mainstream Republicans attempted to co-opt them and pull them back into the mainstream.  However, it didn’t work, and that effort evolved into the MAGA party with Trump’s announcement that he would run for president in 2015.  And we know how hard that has been.  Up until a few months ago, it was a death blow socially to admit that anybody supported President Trump.  It wasn’t easy, and then some.  So these political parties are not for the faint of heart.  I remember in just the last election, the RINO label hung heavy on mainstream politicians, and most of them have been pushed out of office, people like Thom Tillis and Mitch McConnell, people who used to be political heavyweights, but were washed away by the tide.   Instead, you can see the kind of misfits who are talking about joining Musk in the America Party, people like Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci, all former Trump rejects.  The next thing we’ll hear is that Omarosa is going to join, too, and perhaps even Stormy Daniels.  Putin might be next, and maybe the former country of Iran.  What the America Party is going to look like is the island of misfit toys who have fallen out of Trump’s orbit and are upset about it.  It will turn out to be the crybaby party and will run out of steam relatively quickly as everyone involved realizes how hard it is to accomplish these things.  I used to spend time with the Perot family during the early days of the Reform Party, and let me say, even brilliant people underestimate how difficult it is to beat the two-party system.  Because two parties emerge for a reason, by mathematical necessity, not sentiment, you could have in America many parties, as they do in Europe and elsewhere, but the problem is, nobody ever wins a majority, and those experiments usually fall apart quickly.

But when Musk’s America Party splits the Democrats in two and harms them much more than it will the Republicans, people in the MAGA movement will see the distinct benefit.  As I have been saying, if Trump can get election reform to prevent cheating, Democrats may have a hard time winning everywhere, because they have been counting on election fraud just to stay close for decades.  So I say let Musk have his America Party and bleed away Democrats.  Because the Democrats are destroyed right now as they are turning hard left toward open communism and socialism, they were always Marxist oriented, and now many of them are without a Party, and they aren’t happy about it.  And Musk is one of them.  It was fun to be “Dark MAGA” until he realized the cost of that, and for many people, it’s just too great a burden day to day.  It might be fun during elections, but politics is a rough life, and Musk will find that it takes more than an engineer’s mind to solve the problems, because they are primarily psychological.  I think the America Party, with MAGA, will only get stronger, and there will be greater majorities in Congress during the midterms.  So I think it would be a healthy exercise for the former Democrats to explore, let them fight it out between socialism and communism, and show the world what they have always been.  It won’t be MAGA Republicans who peel away, and the RINOs will stay where the tax burdens are least.  They won’t be joining Musk.  It will only be those who are already considered Democrats, as Musk has been.  His self-interest drove his conversion to the Republican Party, and it didn’t work out the way he had hoped.  So he was always at best a fair-weather fan.  And the creation of another political party only hurts Democrats.  I don’t care what the polling says, because they don’t know how to ask the right questions yet.  This is a new political climate, and the old models are not adequate measures.  With the creation of the America Party, it will destroy the Democrat Party and will leave many little disjointed parties grabbing for power for decades.  By then, Elon Musk will be living on Mars, and history will be blaming him for destroying what was left of the Democrats, because they will never recover. 


Rich Hoffman

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I Tried to Tell Everyone: The Democrats are destroyed, and they are never coming back

So how did we get here, with Trump in the White House, to answer the question that Democrats have been asking of themselves lately?  Some are just going crazy because they don’t understand what happened.  But I warned everyone back in the 90s that if they went down this path with leadership, then they would choke on it.  Bill Clinton got caught up in all kinds of things, and this is after we had 8 years of Ronald Reagan, so people had pretty high expectations of what a president should be.  Bill Clinton was a disaster.  His womanizing and references to drugs were embarrassing, and when we showed outrage about the behavior, people like James Carville would come out and say, “It’s the economy stupid,” meaning things were working under Clinton, so don’t worry about the other stuff.  Saul Alinsky purposefully exploited this good nature with Republicans openly in his book Rules for Radicals, where they do something wrong and then blame the people they are working against for actually doing it.  And they got away with it perpetually because Republicans were too friendly to call them out on what they were doing wrong, giving them unearned merit in political existence.  Obama was even worse; once the “Democrats” realized what they could get away with, they overloaded the insults on Republicans and their expectations of morality in political leaders with defacing results, with Obama rumors of being gay, doing drugs, and not being even born in the United States, with him being given unwarranted respect just because of his skin color, with his communist background with a wide range of father figures who were troubled people.   He launched his political career in the living room of Bill Ayers, the convicted domestic terrorist from the Weather Underground.  They insulted us with open support for the Castro communists just off the coast of Cuba, and whenever we pointed things out, we were told to sit down, shut up, and be happy with the job they were doing.  Don’t judge.  (We need to turn Cuba into another American state)

Well, people steamed on this kind of thing for several decades, and I have been waiting for Republicans to crack the code and figure out the game.  Cracking that morality code is why I write these articles every day: to help people, conservatives or people thinking about becoming conservatives, with the confidence they need to fight true evil, and these people are exactly that.  They took over our public offices and desecrated them, then told us not to have an opinion about it.  So, I have been hoping for someone like Trump to come along for a long time.  As a reminder, four years after Reagan, I campaigned hard for Ross Perot.  I told the story this past week of when Perot’s daughters gave me a very nice tie from that campaign in Dallas, Texas, the night before the election in 1992.  I liked Perot over Bush because he knew how to defend America with warranted merit, whereas Bush did not.  And Clinton was just a sleazy con artist.  Many people blamed me for Ross Perot pulling votes away from Bush over the years in political circles.  But Bush was only accelerating the problem of the kind of evil coming out of the Democrat Party, and we were going to go down the tube one way or another.  I wasn’t about to put my name next to failure to keep a party together, hoping that Bush would give us a few pieces of lent from Reagan and that we should be happy about it.  I have been on a moral crusade in politics since then.  Naturally, I was among the first to sign up when the Tea Party movement came around. 

I was doing work in Hollywood when Barack Obama came along after 8 years of whitewashing George Bush’s very unsatisfying behavior.  I hated Obama tremendously, and I saw the way he was seducing all the Hollywood types out in California in 2008.  I could have kept quiet and made a lot of money, like everyone else.  But I stepped away to contribute myself to the rebellion against the demons of the world, and I’m glad I did.  And a few years into that movement, we started taking out all the RINOs in politics who had been helping this vile evil along.  And when Trump began to get serious about running for president, which I knew about because of the Ross Perot Reform Party that formed in the wake of his efforts, Trump was getting serious at the end of the 1990s.  I saw him at a few events and thought he would be great.  The only drawback, I thought, was his womanizing.  He had been married too much and was associated with gambling casinos.  But after a few years of Obama, I started to think that Trump would be the perfect undoing of the massive destruction that the Democrats had done to the world.  By the time 2015 came around, I had been supportive of Trump before he went down the escalator.  I was a fan of the Bill O’Reilly interview where he proposed a “why not” scenario for Trump.  And the rest has been history.  Trump has been for Republicans the exorcism against demons that has been desperately needed for several decades now. 

The Democrat game of “ignoring what we do, but we’ll use everything against you” method, which was exposed fully during that first Trump term, and people could see just how bad everything was, was falling apart.  Then the way that Bret Kavanaugh was put through the wringer and, most recently, Pete Hegseth over silly things like drinking or womanizing, after what the Democrats had given us—homosexuals having sodomized sex in our government buildings on camera for all to see, then being told not to judge, was too much for people to endure anymore.  Trump had morality problems, but after what we had become used to, people were willing to overlook those things and vote for someone who could do the job.  People no longer wanted a moral leader from an elected representative.  They gave up on that a long time ago, thanks to Democrat behavior.  So they moved toward merit; they just wanted someone who could do the job they needed best.   And in that world, Democrats aren’t very good at anything but complaining, so they can’t compete.  And Trump is running them all down, and people are happy about it.  But how did it happen?  Well, Democrats lowered the bar so much that they never seemed to consider that it would lower for Republicans, too.  I don’t think Trump is a low bar by any measure.  It allowed excellence as an executive to move into public office even if it took three marriages and kids by all different women to be overcome so he would get a chance among voters.  People thought, “Why not? After all, the Democrats gave us.”  And now they can’t compete with Trump.  They destroyed themselves with this Saul Alinsky game.  They put themselves out of business, and given that little history I presented, they will never return.  They will never gain any political footing ever again.  And while they were looking around, trying to figure out what happened, I tried to tell everyone, especially them.  But they didn’t listen, and here they are.

Rich Hoffman

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A Million New Voters for Republicans: Learning to be winners, and making “playing nice” a thing of the past

First of all, if a political party like the Democrats continue to point to “the popular vote” as a measure for election victory, then you will continue to see the intent to cheat in elections. The popular vote is not how we elect people because it was determined early in America’s foundation that it was too easy to stack up voters in isolated, controlled areas that did not represent the country as a whole. And this is what Democrats have built their entire political party around, the concept of cheating with the popular vote, with blue city giveaways, illegal immigration, allowing anybody to vote without voter I.D. so that they could artificially prop up the voting numbers in places like Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York City. That is why when you look at a map of the United States where Republicans are represented in Red and Democrats in Blue, you will see that the blue areas are relatively small and are concentrated in the dense city areas. Republicans have run away from Democrats for a long time and filled in the states in the rest of the country, leaving vast areas of red in much less populated areas. So when election time comes and all the voting impropriety is thrown in for consideration, Democrats appear to have more voters when they have been illegally consolidated into small areas where Democrats control the voting process. It is not an honest way to conduct elections, which is precisely why there is an electoral college. When the attackers of the American idea conjured up their schemes of election fraud and representational dishonesty, they assumed that they could lobby on behalf of the popular vote in the same way they lobby against constitutional limits on government. America has backstops in its legal system to quell the enthusiasm for criminal conduct that other countries don’t have, which is evident in the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college. 

But there is more bad news for Democrats, which they deserve, which is an accurate measure of their overall effectiveness. This is important to those who worry that Democrats have some magic power to continue winning elections. Much of what they have done for many years is artificially prop themselves up to look like they had more support in America than they really had. They are overly represented in the media culture, arts and entertainment, fashion, and the visible things people see on television. But those views are not represented in what people actually believe, especially away from the very blue cities on the coasts of North America. As I say all the time, if it weren’t for deceitful practices, such as election fraud and the desire to hide this reality from even themselves by stacking the vote with illegal aliens, ghetto giveaways by Democrat politicians to bottom feeder types looking for a free ride in life, and downright fake votes like we saw for Joe Biden in 2020 where the people counting the votes just made up around 40 million votes to give him the win and expected everyone to just take their word for it and call it a certified election, Democrats would never win elections at all. Americans aren’t that liberal in nature. They aren’t even “just right of center.” I’ve been all over the country, and Democrat politics are not in their hearts. And now, in the days after Trump has left the White House and Democrats have given the world Joe Biden, the loser in chief, Republicans have gained over a million new voters, according to The Associated Press, which is hardly a conservative outlet. 

A million voters switched to Republican over the last year. According to the Associated Press, those people had been sitting on the fence all along or voted Democrat because of the Never Trumper sentiment. These scared suburban moms thought Trump’s mean Tweets were “unprofessional” and “beneath the high office of the President.” But now they are paying 100 bucks at the gas pump to run their kids all over town to be with their friends, and maybe those mean Tweets don’t look so bad anymore. And this brings up something I explained to the Ross Perot family in their company’s parking lot the night before the election in 1992, that most voters will crawl through broken glass for a winner. If a political candidate can show wins to their voters, then voters will always tend to vote in favor of them. Trump knew this early on through his television work on NBC and his work with the WWE. People will put aside personal flaws in character if wins are the result. We see it in sports all the time, and now we certainly see it in politics. As bad as the world has been politically, all the wins come from the Republican side. All Democrats have are protests and riots in the streets. They have nothing else, and now that the bandaid has been ripped off the scab, Democrats showed their ugliness in 2020 with lockdowns, riots, and election fraud to the point where America is now rooting against them as the villains in the play. And there is no plan for Democrats to repair that image. They are the party of big government, open borders, drag queens, drugs, and crime. Like Trump would say, other than that, they are very nice people. 

Republicans have become the party of victory, and new politicians like Ron DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Boebert have learned from Trump that spiking the football is something that voters want to see.   This notion of keeping politics in the realm of polite society is the way to allow the Democrats to continue pretending the nation is with them with the popular vote because they have convinced the other side to stay home, and they call that a win. I call it cheating, and that’s the context of what I told the Perot family the night before the 1992 election, where he was a third-party candidate who pulled 19% away from the establishment candidates the next day. That is how we ended up with Bill Clinton, but that’s also how we learned the truth about our politics over the next few decades. Perot became the founder of the Reform Party. By the end of that decade, Donald Trump was thinking of running for president against Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party ticket, which never gained enough steam to make it official. So, this discussion didn’t just pop up out of nowhere in 2015.

Instead of starting a third party, Trump and many others learned that the way to win elections was to give voters what they wanted most, representative victory. Not fake numbers and propped up population centers to make an argument against the electoral college with a popular vote illegally obtained. The Democrats have only been able to make themselves viable by splitting the Republican Party and hiding scandal behind polite society. If the voters started to get restless and angry, then Democrats would never have a chance, and they know it, as does the media. This news of over a million people switching their voter sentiments to Republican is devastating to Democrats. Because it reveals a secret that has been long suppressed, that our nation is not a 50/50 country, as it’s been sold to us. And suppose Republicans get to the point where they start embracing winning. In that case, nobody will beat them, and they will gain vast majorities in the House, Senate, and Executive Branch for many decades because voters don’t vote on policy arguments. They vote on who wins and loses and who sells those wins to the public with a spiked football. And it looks like, finally, that understanding isn’t regulated to a third-party position, but the mainstream Republicans are poised to win everywhere and often for perhaps the next century to come. Liberalism has failed in every way we can measure things, and without the ability to conceal that fact, Democrats are doomed and deserve all the losses coming their way.

Rich Hoffman

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