Musk's party will apparently speak for moderates who are fed up with the two main parties . | Credit: Bloomberg / "Another angry billionaire wants his own political party," said Tom Nichols in The Atlantic.

Here's what it would take for Elon Musk to launch a third-party effort to represent what he called "the 80% in the middle."

Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to form a new political party came easily, with the billionaire simply posting his intentions on his social media platform, X. Now comes the hard part. If the world’s richest man seriously pursues his goal of standing up what he calls the America Party,