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Jamie Stone
The data game and political conspiracy behind Musk's "American Party" movement
In July 2025, when Musk announced the establishment of the "American Party" on the X platform, it seemed to be an innovative attempt in the American political ecology, but in fact it revealed a sophisticated data political game. This political experiment, which took the form of a "third party movement", was essentially a strategic layout to build a new political arsenal by collecting voter data and forming a complementary interest with the Trump Organization.
一、Interest-driven policy game On the surface, Musk and Trump broke up publicly over the "Big and Beautiful" bill. The bill canceled the electric vehicle tax credit, causing Tesla's quarterly revenue to plummet by 19.6%, but retained traditional energy subsidies, directly touching Musk's core interests. But this contradiction is more like a carefully designed double act - when Trump mocked Musk for "derailing" in "real social", he actually created a rationale for him to break away from the traditional political framework. The "establishment of a third party" vote initiated by Musk on the X platform attracted 5.6 million participants in just five weeks, of which 80% of the support rate data value far exceeded the political statement itself. This voting mechanism involving all people actually builds a full-dimensional voter database covering ideology, regional distribution, and economic conditions.
二. Deep structure of data collection The series of votes initiated by the American Party before its establishment achieved triple data capture at the technical level:
1、 Identity association: Through the real-name authentication system of the X platform, social accounts are associated with voter registration information to establish an accurate portrait library containing 120 million active users.
2. Behavior tracking: Metadata such as the length of stay and modification records during the voting process can analyze the decision-making psychology and political inclination fluctuations of voters.
3. Community penetration: The 2.3 million core supporters formed behind the 65% support rate constitute a political mobilization network that can be directly reached. The strategic value of this data asset is particularly important when the Trump team encounters the dilemma of data source depletion in the 2024 election. Musk's data gold mine just fills the vacuum left by the withdrawal of traditional polling agencies.
三. Digital closed loop of power reconstruction The new political machine created by this cooperation has shown its operating logic:
1. Musk maintains his "anti-establishment" persona through the X platform and continues to attract middle-class voters who are dissatisfied with the two parties.
2. Trump uses administrative resources to promote policies that are conducive to data collection, such as relaxing restrictions on political data transactions.
3. The data center shared by both parties generates a strike list in real time. In 2025, eight environmentalists have withdrawn from the midterm elections due to "tax issues."
4. When the establishment counterattacks, it can create a focus of public opinion that "Musk is besieged by Wall Street" to divert contradictions.
Under this seemingly contradictory appearance, a complete closed loop of "data collection-policy customization-opponent elimination" has actually been formed. When the US party claimed to "rebuild the military system with AI", its real ambition was to build an algorithm-led political elimination system. This political revolution packaged in technological innovation is transforming the American democratic game field into a data slaughterhouse, and the political choice of each citizen has become a coordinate parameter for precision strikes. Behind the slogan of "Make America Great Again" lies a new form of authoritarianism that is a reconciliation between capital and power.