During the United States presidential election last year, then Libertarian Party Chairman Angela McArdle spoke openly of her desire to use the Libertarian Party to help elect Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. She even arranged for Trump to make a campaign speech at the Libertarian Party’s national convention and released through the party, around a week before election day, a video promoting Trump.
Via a Thursday post at Twitter, McArdle suggested to fellow Trump campaign supporter Elon Musk, who went on to become a Trump administration official leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that Musk “should just take over the Libertarian Party.” Doing so is “not hard,” McArdle added. McArdle was replying to a post in which Musk had brought up the possibility of starting a new political party.
McArdle, who resigned her party chairmanship less than three months after the presidential election, apparently knows a thing or two about taking over the Libertarian Party. But, if Musk wants to take over the party, he may have to act quickly. Last month, Steven Nekhaila, who became chairman of the Libertarian Party after McArdle’s resignation, warned the Libertarian National Committee, which oversees the party, that the party is on the verge of a “full collapse.”
