MAGAty SuperPACs, Self-Driving Fascism And America's Clown Car Coup

James Fishback’s Big Ugly Ego Trip— When Fascism Meets Finance Bros

Do you remember when this idea got floated in February about all those billions of dollars in DOGE savings being passed on to taxpayers in the form of DOGE Dividend checks? Never happened, of course. But the guy who thought it up— he says the idea came to him in a dream— is a 30 year old college dropout and hedge fund sleazebag named James Fishback. He runs an investment firm, Azoria Meritocracy ETF, geared to racists, pledging to only invest in companies that eschew diversity, equity and inclusion. He announced the launch of the company, last December, appropriately enough, at Mar-A-Lago.

And now Fishback, a virulent xenophobe and out of control publicity hound and self-promoter, is back in the news, this time for claiming he’ll kick down a million dollars to start a SuperPAC to counter any efforts Elon Musk makes to penalize Republicans who vote for Trump’s Big Ugly Bill by funding primaries against them, as he tweeted he would.

The new SuperPAC is FSD PAC— “Full Support Donald”— a junior high swipe at “Tesla’s Full Self Driving.” Sophia Cai reported that he’ll “spend money in any race where Musk follows through on his plan to bankroll a third-party hopeful, or where he backs a Democrat or a Republican primary challenge against a Trump-endorsed incumbent. The goal: ensure that Musk’s deep pockets don’t undermine Trump’s grip on the GOP. ‘There’s real frustration in our movement with Elon and his antics,’ said Fishback, who stepped away from DOGE last month after Musk lashed out at Trump. ‘I’m a big believer in what he’s doing in the private sector. But when it comes to politics, he’s dead wrong on this.’”

FSD PAC’s formation comes amid an intensifying standoff between the world’s wealthiest man and the Republican party. Musk, the GOP’s largest individual donor, has publicly threatened to start his own party, the “America Party,” if Congress passes Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package, known as the Big Beautiful Bill.

The Senate passed that bill on Tuesday and it could land on the president’s desk this week. Trump on Tuesday, said he wasn’t concerned Republicans would be swayed by Musk or his money. “I don’t think he should be playing that game with me,” the president said. A Trump ally added that he was not too concerned about Musk’s threats, noting his lackluster track record of political endorsements.

“A guy named Elon Musk tried to play Kingmaker in the 2024 Republican primary by backing Ron DeSanctimonious,” said the person who was granted anonymity to speak freely. Musk also spent millions to sway a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, including handing out million-dollar checks to two Wisconsin voters [they were actually pre-selected ,MAGA operative, not random voters] but the Democrat won handily anyway. “For it to have any impact, you’d have to have Republicans leaving the Republican Party of President Trump and joining a new party just so they can take a check from Elon,” said a Republican strategist granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking. “I just don’t see that happening.”

… Trump escalated the rhetoric on Tuesday morning, telling reporters that his administration “will have to take a look” at deporting Musk, a South African native and naturalized U.S. citizen. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump said, referring to the agency at the center of his government-shrinking agenda.

Musk, for his part, responded on Twitter: “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.”

This morning, Paul Krugman wrote that “Musk’s opposition predictably made no difference. Musk and other oligarchs will soon learn just how little political power their wealth gives them in the political environment they helped create. More on that in a minute. Beyond that, Musk was against the bill for all the wrong reasons… What is the “insane spending” and “pork” of which he speaks? If there’s huge wasteful spending going on, well, Musk had months of unprecedented power and access to find it — and came up empty. The truth is that this bill will explode the deficit because of the huge tax breaks it’s offering to the wealthy and corporations. But Musk can’t handle the truth. What about Musk’s threat to form a new political party? It will go nowhere if he tries. But I don’t think he’ll get anywhere near making good on that threat. As Trump might say, Musk just doesn’t have the cards. My prediction is that very soon one of two things will happen. Either Musk will slink off, tail between his legs. Or he will see his wealth destroyed, faster than he imagines possible. Most immediately, Musk’s business interests are unusually dependent on federal support, and hence on the good will of whoever is running the government. I’m not sure whether Musk is really the most subsidized businessman in history, but Trump basically got it right here:” 

All this childish behavior reminded me of a report from ABC News, Trump falsely questions Zohran Mamdani's citizenship, threatens to arrest him over ICE operations. No surprise that he also endorsed his puppet-mayor, corrupt-on-a-Trumpian-level Eric Adams. “Trump,” wrote Meredith Deliso, “threatened New York state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani with arrest if the presumptive Democratic nominees for New York City mayor defies Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. The president also continued to allege the 33-year-old Democratic socialist is a ‘communist’ while talking to reporters Tuesday.”

Señor TACO: “Look, we don't need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I'm going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation. A lot of people are saying he's here illegally. We're going to look at everything. Ideally, he's going to turn out to be much less than a communist. But right now he's a communist. That's not a socialist... I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun with him, watching him, because he has to come right through this building to get his money.”

What do you get when you cross a crypto huckster, a tech overlord with a persecution complex, and a sitting president who treats ICE like his personal Gestapo? You get the 2025 GOP— an unholy mess of authoritarian cosplay, off-the-charts grift and playground feuds, now complete with SuperPACs named after Tesla features. While Musk toys with forming a vanity third party and Fishback LARPs as a MAGA warlord, the whole party devolves further into a personality cult held together by paranoia and performative cruelty. And at the center of it all, Señor Trumpanzyy— threatening to deport naturalized citizens, jail state lawmakers for being too brown and too left, and sic ICE on anyone who dares step out of line. This isn’t politics. This resembles a reality show where the prize is total control and the punishment is exile. Whether it's DOGE, FSD, or whatever acronym gets cooked up next, the mission is the same: punish dissent, reward loyalty, get richer and keep the circus going long enough to burn the tent down.