It’s a Beast of a time in Washington. Donald Trump’s D.C. reality show is full of new characters, plot twists, and cliffhangers, and the Daily Beast will navigate you through it. The 47th president won’t need to drain The Swamp.

The only gap left in the market, and it is a limited one, is for Reaganism — that is, for lower spending, limited government, and strict constitutionalism.

Building a new political party to rival the Democrats and Republicans is enormously difficult and expensive. Small wonder it hasn’t been done.

Elon Musk declared the launch of his new political party on Saturday, a project he has repeatedly floated in the weeks since his explosive breakup with President Donald Trump — but provided no details as to how he planned to jump through the hoops necessary to establish a viable alternative.

Musk’s outrage over Trump’s signature legislation fuels a pledge to rejoin the political fray, despite the wounds he’s taken and the poor electoral record of mavericks.

Over 60% of Americans want a third political party, near a record high, ... (R-Fla.), a far-right Republican and early critic of McCarthy’s leadership who once said, ...

The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret society. The disappearance of William Morgan, a former Mason who had threatened to expose secrets, fueled widespread paranoia about the shadowy group, which many believed was covertly controlling the government.

The viable third-party presidential option is the fever dream of American politics. But that won’t stop the Green Party or the Libertarians from fielding candidates every election year. And this ...

With the Republican and Bull Moose Party splitting the vote, Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected president with 42 percent. A fourth candidate, Socialist Eugene Debs, gets 6 percent.