The Department of War's aggressive name, while doing nothing to change the actual state of the U.S. military, is nothing more than “pretense of power” theatrics.
This isn't a moment for partisanship. It's also not a moment for division. And it’s certainly not a moment to cherry-pick which incidents of political violence count and which do not.
Elon Musk’s recent push to launch a new nationwide party ... not only comes off as pretentious but also sets a fundamentally new trend in U.S. politics.