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He can be in it for himself, and it can still be a good thing for us
Sure, that's fine, I just don't want people to lose sight of the bigger picture here. Musk is not an altruist. He's not the good guy all of a sudden. He didn't grow a conscience after falling out with Trump.
If this political party ever gets off the ground, which it probably won't, Musk will always have a controlling interest in it. He will never ever let the party move away from enabling and enacting his agenda, and his alone. He doesn't give a single shit or a wipe about helping Americans. He wants to protect his fortune by taking control of the government apparatus to end regulations or investigations that impede the companies he is in charge of. That's it.
I certainly hope that Democrats will see this for the nakedly transparent political maneuver that it is, and not get swept up in the idea of a 3rd party founded and controlled by a billionaire will bring any kind of meaningful change to the system. And I believe they will - we rejected Bloomberg and Steyer in 2020 because they were out-of-touch billionaires who tried to buy their way into the party, and I think that Democrats are not so easily fooled by the obvious bad faith rich cunts who try to buy their way into the public zeitgeist. I just worry that people will see this move by Musk as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and shift closer to his values as a result. He might be the enemy of your enemy, but he's still an an enemy as far as I'm concerned.
Nobody who actually cares about others thinks Musk is the good guy. This is strictly an evil vs. evil situation.
This isn’t what anyone is celebrating.
They don’t think for a second that Musk will do anything positive.
What they’re hoping for is republicans to split somewhere near the middle, some in support of MAGAts and some in support of Musk, which could lead to more people voting for a democrat than a republican. Votes that would have gone toward a MAGAt will go to Musk. That is the prayer.