Musk is on a hiding to nothing, said Philip Bump in The Washington Post. Having worked in the White House for a few months, he has acquired a taste for political power and clearly wants more of it. But he has apparently forgotten "about the part where he also became wildly unpopular".

Elon Musk's new America Party would face challenges making an impact in our country's entrenched two-party system. But ... it's Elon Musk.