If there’s one thing we know about Elon Musk, it’s that he loves a serious challenge. You know, like building recyclable rocket systems, delivering global broadband from space, and, apparently, helping the Republicans keep the House during this year’s midterm elections.

And it’s this last piece, this political piece, that concerns us today. Because while the Autopen Party has been slurping canal water for a few years now, history tells us that the party in power almost invariably gets a comeuppance during the midterm elections.

The only exceptions to this rule in the modern era are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. But FDR did so during the Great Depression, when the American people were soothed by his “fireside chats” and beguiled by his “New Deal” promise of free stuff. Slick Willie, of course, benefited from not only an unusually strong economy but from feminists and other reprobates who rewarded him for having made oral sex with interns great again. As for W, he was buoyed by an electorate that rightly saw the Republicans as the adults in the room in the aftermath of 9/11.

Musk no doubt knows this history, and he laid out the stakes in a brief New Year’s Day X post — a post that included a video of Donald Trump very publicly patting Musk on the left arm as the president and the first lady walked past him during a White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: “America is toast if the radical left wins,” said Musk. “They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore.” That post, by the way, has since been viewed nearly 32 million times.

Musk then followed up with a January 4 post of an image of himself at a table with Trump and Melania: “Had a lovely dinner last night with POTUS and FLOTUS,” he tweeted. “2026 is going to be amazing!”

I’m not as worried about a return to the open-borders status quo ante as Musk is. Trump has won that argument, and the Democrats know it. But I am worried about what the Party of Biden will do if it succeeds in snatching the speaker’s gavel from the GOP. Another impeachment seems politically unlikely, but endless subpoenas and investigations and the hauling of Trump cabinet members before Democrat-controlled committees seems like a sure thing. So does the scuttling of any legislation that might help the economy or the American people.

After all, the Democrats are desperate to retake the White House in 2028, and their unstated goal between now and then is to sow as much chaos and inflict as much economic pain as possible upon the American people — and blame it on the Republicans. That’s what the Schumer Shutdown was all about, and that’s what these vile anti-ICE protests are all about.

Musk was the Republicans’ biggest donor during the 2024 election cycle, having spent more than $290 million on Trump and his fellow Republicans, and it paid off in a resounding electoral win for Trump. He was rewarded for his benevolence with that glorious albeit short-lived DOGE gig. And shortly thereafter, he had an all-too ugly, all-too public falling-out with Trump — a falling-out that included Musk vowing to create a new political party and insinuating that Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had a history worth probing. But, hey, what’s a little good-natured ribbing about sex-trafficking and pedophilia between alpha males, right?

Ultimately, as was reported back in August, Musk called off his scorched-earth campaign against Trump when he realized it would hurt his relationship with Vice President JD Vance, whom Musk considers a friend and a likely successor to Trump in 2028.

The burying of the Trump-Musk hatchet is a big deal — both for its political and financial implications. And it comes at a time when Musk’s Tesla has fallen behind China’s leading EV company, BYD, in global sales, and as American Tesla drivers continue to suffer from vandalism by unhinged leftists. But above all, it’s the worst of news for the Trump-deranged Democrats, who can practically taste an electoral triumph in November.

Or, as Musk himself might put it: Let that sink in.