{"id":2457548,"date":"2025-07-09T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:42:13","slug":"we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/","title":{"rendered":"We Already Have A Third Party. It&#8217;s Called The Primary Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2457548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Elon Musk&#8217;s recent declaration about forming a new political party, the &#8220;America Party,&#8221; aiming to challenge the traditional two-party system in the United States. The author argues that the idea of creating a prosperous third party is naive because the American political system is structured around two major parties, making it difficult for new parties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ten-times-british-lockdown-rulemakers-broke-their-own-covid-restrictions\/\" title=\"Ten Times British Lockdown Rulemakers Broke Their own Covid Restrictions\">gain significant traction<\/a>. instead, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-controlled-election-in-texas-largest-county-fails-to-count-10k-mail-in-ballots\/\" title=\"Democrat Controlled Election in Texas&#039; Largest County Fails to Count 10K Mail-In Ballots\">primary election process<\/a> within the Democratic and Republican parties already serves as a kind of internal third party, offering a platform for diverse candidates and ideas to influence party direction.<\/p>\n<p>The article further critiques the two-party system for prioritizing incumbent protection and suppressing outsider candidates. Though, it suggests that Musk could have more impact by financially supporting candidates within the existing parties to push fiscal reforms and change policies effectively. Ultimately, creating a new party from scratch is viewed as a likely waste of resources, with a more pragmatic approach being to work within the current political framework to enact change.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/54380002927\/in\/photostream\/\">White House\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/09\/someone-tell-elon-musk-we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Someone%20Tell%20Elon%20Musk%20We%20Already%20Have%20A%20Third%20Party.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Called%20The%20Primary%20Process&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/09\/someone-tell-elon-musk-we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Someone%20Tell%20Elon%20Musk%20We%20Already%20Have%20A%20Third%20Party.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Called%20The%20Primary%20Process&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/09\/someone-tell-elon-musk-we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/09\/someone-tell-elon-musk-we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Someone%20Tell%20Elon%20Musk%20We%20Already%20Have%20A%20Third%20Party.%20It%E2%80%99s%20Called%20The%20Primary%20Process&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/09\/someone-tell-elon-musk-we-already-have-a-third-party-its-called-the-primary-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Every so often, some prominent person gives himself a dopamine boost by loudly declaring that the American two-party system is &ldquo;broken,&rdquo; and thus &ldquo;it&rsquo;s time&rdquo; for &ldquo;a third party.&rdquo; Elon Musk is the latest, and the fact that he&rsquo;s the richest person on Earth doesn&rsquo;t make the idea any less naive and superficial.<\/p>\n<p>Musk last weekend said he was forming the &ldquo;America Party&rdquo; to compete with Republicans and Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1941584569523732930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">because<\/a>, &ldquo;When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s a fine point &mdash; the national debt and deficit keep going up under both parties, though you could argue which side bears more responsibility and what policies were worth the high spending. In any event, building a third national party from scratch would be his biggest waste of time and money (and I&rsquo;m including that &ldquo;Burnt Hair&rdquo; fragrance one of his companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/elon-musk-burnt-hair-perfume-trnd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used to produce<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-545787011\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>First, American government isn&rsquo;t built for more than two major parties. On the federal level, the biggest political prize is the White House because the presidency is the most powerful office. The rational thing to do when competing for that position is to participate in one of two big parties most closely aligned with any given person&rsquo;s views, rather than in a smaller party that is 100 percent aligned (which in a country of more than 300 million people, will end up having a membership of about two dozen). It&rsquo;s why <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >anti-fossil fuel activists<\/a> are better off as members of the Democrat Party than they would be in the Green Party. It&rsquo;s why anti-regulation businessmen are better off as members of the Republican Party than they would be in the Libertarian Party.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the primary process for Democrats and Republicans effectively functions as an existing third party anyway. By allowing for innumerable candidates to introduce new policy ideas and positions in a primary contest, voters can then collectively choose a nominee to potentially take the party in a new direction, either extremely or slightly. This is what Bill Clinton did in the Democrat presidential primary of 1992. This is what the Tea Party did in the Republican midterm primaries of 2010. And it&rsquo;s what Donald Trump did in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>None of that is to say the two-party system that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-youtuber-furious-to-discover-his-hometown-has-been-destroyed-by-leftist-policies\/\" title=\"Major YouTuber Furious to Discover His Hometown Has Been Destroyed by Leftist Policies\">exists doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t have some inherent features that are antithetical to the interests of voters. The biggest problem with it is that both parties prioritize protecting incumbents, no matter how awful they might be, using party money to choke out candidates who might be more reflective of certain constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s where Musk could be a smashing success in shaping the system if he really cared. If he pledged unlimited money to candidates of his choosing running in either party, he could realistically change both of them, elevating fiscal issues, and &mdash; if it&rsquo;s popular with voters &mdash; he could help elect officials who are serious about addressing them.<\/p>\n<p>Or he can dump tens of billions of dollars into creating an apparatus that already exists before eventually seeing the logic in simply fusing it with one of the two major parties.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/democrat\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Democrat<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/green-party\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Green Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/libertarian\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Libertarian<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/primary-system\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">primary system<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/republican\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Republican<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/third-party\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">third party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit White House\/Flickr Share on Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social, Email. 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