George Washington's Federalist Party offered the force to keep the British government away. Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party offered continuing independence but also more freedom than the war-supporting Federalists. Andrew Jackson's and Martin Van Buren's Democratic Party offered smaller governments, no central banking, and no debt. Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party offered freedom from slavery. Ronald Reagan offered freedom from 1970s inflation.

Voters have a system problem. Since the dawn of Progressive control, starting in 1894, the USA has not had a small-government major party. Fortunately for us, system design is a strong suit for Elon Musk.

Voters also have an off-the-shelf solution ready to use. The Constitution has rules to limit governments' powers. The Constitution gives these rules force with elegant, multiple layers of sanctions: powers are separated and offsetting, so each separated power will limit others.

But from the founding of the nation until now, no party has been chartered to have an analogous constitution, so that at least one party and its representatives will be limited too. It's high time that we create at least one such party.

A party that's limited by a party constitution will be a major, credible advance.

A party constitution will be effective for limiting the party, and this in turn will make the Constitution effective for limiting the governments, because a party is a radically-smaller, much-more-controllable system. A party's only appropriate power is to help its grassroots voters select good people to run for political offices. Good people will then turn and use their constitutional powers to limit others in governments.

Voters have been choosing between lesser evils, and what they've been getting left with has still been evil. Voters know that; voters live through that. Voters haven't been able to see that they've had credible good options.

Elon Musk could easily get overpowered by donations from the cronies who are supported by our massive governments. Musk needs to spend well. Fighting it out in primaries—running cage matches to the political death, under the Republican Party's rules of engagement, up against well-stocked cronies' war chests—would be fighting at a severe disadvantage. It's not desirable. And it's not necessary. There's a ready bypass.

A good party won't need money to get people to hear about it. It won't need money to smear opponents or scare voters.

Just underwrite the work of achieving and maintaining ballot access for a good party. Ballot access has been proven for years to be achievable, by various lightly-funded parties and independents in various races.

Voters are more than ready to vote for the candidates of a good party.

What voters need to see is that a party will be running candidates across the board in general elections, and that those candidates can be counted on to increase freedom.

Such a party won't really be a third party; it will be the lynchpin of the second major party.

The dominant major party is the Progressives, who are made up of all Democrats and most Republicans. The second major party is the constitutionalists.