Once worshipped as the tech messiah who was going to save the planet, colonize Mars, and make the blind see again with brain chips, Elon Musk lost his Democratic halo when he decided that Twitter was going to be a mecca of free speech – and he definitely was kicked off the Democratic plantation the moment he boarded the Trump Train.

And then, almost as quickly, Musk jumped off the Trump Train when he discovered something that 99.9% of the rest of us already know – Republicans aren’t going to stop spending any more than the Democrats will. Yes, our elected spineless GOP will slow spending down a bit and definitely spend our taxpayer dollars on better stuff – but no politician will stop spending money until they absolutely HAVE TO.

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So Musk felt betrayed since DOGE (Dept. of Governmental Efficiency) was all about spending cuts and getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse. And he did a great job at exposing it all.

When Musk’s stint leading DOGE wrapped up, he was clearly frustrated that government waste was still full steam ahead, with no real change in sight. Meanwhile, Tesla was taking hits thanks to the far-left’s unhinged “Tesla Takedown” campaign. So, Musk pivoted and he launched into what may or may not be a staged feud with Trump.

While the Tesla cars getting lit on fire and Tesla protests have calmed down (to make room for other protests), Musk has yet to win back his pro-EV Democratic base – and most likely won’t. Democrats have long since ghosted him for being too capitalist, too uncancellable and too pro-Trump. And once the Democrats dump you, you’re usually exiled forever.

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And Republicans? We only accepted him because he morphed into the pro-Trump, pro-America Musk for a while. Trump supporters embraced Musk when he stood up for free speech, roasted the woke mob, and kicked DEI nonsense to the curb. But nobody’s strapping on a red hat to rally behind a guy who wants to sell them $60,000 EV sedans while lecturing us during so much winning.

Now that Musk has “jumped the shark,” going against Trump and threatening to start a third party called the “America Party,” he is an island unto himself. He has nowhere to go now. With bridges torched on both sides, the only place he might find a welcome mat is in libertarian territory and that’s not going to help him much with his political plans.

Trump said about Musk’s grand plans for a new political party over the weekend, “I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party. It’s always been a two-party system and I think starting a third party just adds to the confusion.”

He added in his Truth Social post, “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.”

As Trump rides high in the wake of victory after victory, Musk’s Tesla stock is doing its best impression of a SpaceX rocket exploding on the launchpad. Why? Because Musk made the classic mistake of assuming political (and business) clout comes from personality alone. Who is his market for his Teslas? Democrats? Not anymore. Republicans? We never wanted EVs in the first place.

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Musk still clings to a noble but naive dream: fix America by trimming the fat – waste, fraud, abuse, and all the other bureaucratic bloat clogging D.C.’s arteries – and save Social Security and Medicare in the process.

Admirable? Sure. Achievable? Not in this reality. Not even with Trump in charge. Because the truth is, Washington doesn’t run on logic or restraint – it runs on borrowed cash and reelection bribes. And it’ll keep chugging along that way until the wheels fall off.

That’s when we’re all herded into a federal digital currency – shiny new digital dollars from the Federal Reserve that give the government total control over every penny you get and how you spend it. Whether it happens in my lifetime is anyone’s guess, but bank on it: it’s coming.