by BlueApples
 August 20, 2025

from ZeroHedge Website

The triumph of Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election was seen as the indication of a paradigm shift that took the control of the US government from a corrupt political establishment and placed it back in the hands of the American people.

Yet, before even one full year into the second Trump administration, the effervescent enthusiasm that cemented his return to the White House has turned to disenfranchisement.

After a torrid start in his first 100 days in office marked by following through on many of the crucial promises he made on the campaign trail, failures to follow through on core tenets of his America First platform have led to some of the most devoted members of Trump's base turning on the president.

The falling out between President Trump and Elon Musk serves as the perfect distillation of this reversal of fortune...

After a catastrophic meltdown in which Musk seemingly burned any bridges he had left with Trump, the man who once was integral to re-establishing his presidency vowed to become his most formidable challenger by promising to fund a new third party that would disrupt the false dichotomy of the two-party system that the political establishment in Washington predicated its hegemony upon.

The announcement of Musk's America Party swiftly rekindled the fervent patriotism that led to Trump's re-election but placed it in the hands of,

a movement envisioning a new future for the American political landscape free from the dictatorship of the Democrat-Republican uniparty...

It now appears that hope was ill-fated, as Musk is reportedly considering abandoning his plans to form a third party in favor of backing Vice President JD Vance in the event that he plans to run in the 2028 Presidential Election as Trump's successor...

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, while Musk has not completely ruled out creating a third party, the calculus of that political strategy rests on his courtship of the vice president.

In recent weeks, Musk and Vance have remained in touch despite the tech billionaire severing ties with President Trump.

In the wake of the calamitous demise of the Trump-Musk relationship, Vice President Vance attempted to diffuse the tensions between the two, preserving his relationship with the billionaire.

Vance joined Trump's White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in a telephone conversation with Musk on June 6^th that aimed to scale back the unrelenting vitriol cast against the president by the former ally of his who spent nearly $300 million on supporting the Republican cause in 2024.

Although that effort led to a détente between Trump and Musk, it fell far short of reforging the bond between them.
 

While that effort failed to completely restore an alliance with Trump, the vice president's role as peacemaker highlighted the bond between him and Musk that withstood the former's fallout with the president.

As push comes to shove for the America Party with the 2026 Midterm Elections on the horizon, Musk's understanding is that marching on with his plans to launch his third party could mean the end of his relationship with Vance and, in turn, his future shaping American politics.

The 2026 midterms serving as a point of no return is something that Vance tacitly acknowledged in an interview with the Gateway Pundit in which the vice president touched upon Musk's political future.

In the interview,

Vance made it clear that unlike Musk, he would remain loyal to Trump.

With the impact of a third party running in the midterm elections being forecast as an impediment to the Republican aim of keeping control of Congress and consequently Vance's potential presidential run in 2028, the vice president expressed his desire for Musk to abandon his plans to form the America Party and instead salvage his alliance with Trump.

"[M]y hope is that by the time of the midterms, he's kind of come back into the fold," Vance said.

When Musk initially announced his ambition to form the America Party, he set his sights on the 2026 midterms, curbing enthusiasm that the third party would focus on loftier heights like fielding a presidential candidate in 2028.

With any success of the America Party in 2026 deemed as an impediment to Vance's chances in the 2028 Presidential Election, the support for Vance that Musk is reportedly cultivating may prove to be a fait accompli for the end of the America Party before it even begins.

Trepidation around that consequence has become increasingly apparent. Since announcing his intention to form the America Party, the momentum behind the movement has stalled.

According to the WSJ report, Musk's political advisers have not discussed plans to form the party in depth.

Steven Nekhaila, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, summarized the ominous turn that the hopes for the future of the America Party have taken, stating,

"It doesn't seem like anything has been in action, neither at the state level or at the ground level."

While the prospect of the America Party dying on the vine would come as another blow to the populist portion of the electorate that has endured betrayal after betrayal from the ideologues it has supported, that treachery should come as no surprise.

The first signal of the doomed fate of the America Party came in early July, when Musk consulted enigmatic ideologue Curtis Yarvin on the path forward for his political movement.

Yarvin, a far-right Jewish political theorist and software developer who has gone by the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug for some God-forsaken reason, is known for,

his role in founding a technocratic neo-fascist philosophical movement referred to as the Dark Enlightenment.

Since 2016, the burgeoning political philosophy formulated by Yarvin has served as the ideological foundation for the elite whose influence has formed the new American right.

Most notably, Yarvin has come to hold a symbiotic relationship with Peter Thiel, the lamer technocratic version of the Fallen Angel Azazel, whose influence is all but entirely behind the political ascent of JD Vance.
 

Although the relationship between Thiel and Vance has been a centerpiece of political discourse, the vice president's affinity for Curtis Yarvin and the ideology he has created has largely been obscured.

Despite that air of secrecy,

Vance has not been able to completely hide his support for Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment...

In 2021, then-Senator JD Vance spoke glowingly of Yarvin en route to solidifying his claim to the vice presidency, stating,

"There's this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things" before explaining how he thought Yarvin's views should shape the next presidential administration.

 

"I think Trump is going to run again in 2024 and I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice:

Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people."

That proposed course of action did not only encapsulate the rhetoric of the 2024 presidential campaign that Trump aimed at voters who sought to rid themselves of the Deep State running Washington, which reached its apex by having its clearest puppet yet in the White House during the Biden administration.

It also succinctly summarized the fundamental tenets of the Dark Enlightenment theorized by Yarvin and put into practice by Peter Thiel.

The triumph of Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election meant that,

those technocratic overlords now had their own puppet in the White House, having conjured Vance as a manifestation of their political ideology.

The potential of Vance to succeed Trump as president would serve as the next stage of their quest to consolidate power.

Musk himself has extolled the ideals of the Dark Enlightenment advanced by Yarvin, Thiel, and Vance.

During the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit in 2020, which Musk took part in shortly after casting his ballot in the 2020 Presidential Election for Joe Biden, he said,

"I think it's a false dichotomy to look at government and sort of industry as separate... government is... the ultimate corporation."

That neo-fascist outlook for the future of America embodied the vision held by Yarvin and Thiel.

Yarvin has previously stated that,

"if Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia",

...in defense of his fundamental belief that the American government should be replaced by a council of technocratic elites akin to a board of directors that a president would serve as a CEO to.

Thiel has repeatedly expressed his view that democracy is incompatible with freedom, in line with the core philosophy of the Dark Enlightenment.
 

While Yarvin and Thiel's criticisms of democracy may be valid in a vacuum, the vision they have for what would replace the American political system represents a power structure in which the Elite have even more control than they do currently.

The salient difference being that it is they who are the elite pulling the levers of power. That vision is entirely at odds with the populist agenda Musk described as his motivation for forming the America Party.

Musk's reliance on Yarvin for political counsel raises serious doubts over the authenticity of his purported mission to serve the American people by starting a third party to disrupt business as usual in the corrupt cesspool that is Washington DC, as does his continued support for Vance, who is a product of the ideologues driving the neo-fascist political philosophy that has accelerated America down the path of,

becoming a full-fledged technocracy...!

Although Elon Musk's relationship with Donald Trump may be irreparable, his ties to Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance remain intact...

With that triumvirate being central to the future of the Republican Party in 2028 and beyond, continuing forward with the America Party would put Musk in conflict with a political axis that has already climbed up the rungs of power in Washington on the path he seeks to ascend.

The report that Musk is contemplating backing Vance's potential 2028 presidential run may have less to do with the political future of the vice president and more to do with the political future of Musk, as the decision to do so would initiate him as an integral member of a cabal of technocratic overlords whose growing influence over the American political landscape doesn't foreshadow the defeat of the Deep State.

Instead, it foreshadows them as the new faction in control of it...!