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For those that don't know about it already, there is a current "rift" between some so-called MAGA on X and Elon Musk. On que, the Left is delighting in the drama. Here is the take from Politico Playbook about it - MUSK VS. MAGA — If the press, to borrow Salena Zito’s memorable turn of phrase, takes President-elect DONALD TRUMP “literally, but not seriously,” and his supporters “take him seriously, but not literally,” this week offered fresh signs that some of his most high-profile supporters from Silicon Valley take him neither seriously nor literally on one of the central issues of his campaign. A fight over immigration has erupted among Trump’s supporters, revealing hairline fractures in his political coalition that have the potential to rapidly grow into something more untenable. On the one side are the right-wing MAGA faithful, who have been drawn to Trump in no small part because of his hardline stance on immigration. On the other side are Silicon Valley’s latecomers to the MAGA movement, who broadly agree with Trump on cultural and economic issues, but whose businesses depend on attracting the most talented highly skilled workers in the world to America. During the election, that divide was easy to paper over — negative partisanship, after all, is a helluva drug. But the election is over. And with Trump poised to take office in just over three weeks — and with ELON MUSK, himself an immigrant who is firmly in that latter camp, having emerged as the president-elect’s most prominent and vocal ally — that divide cannot be ignored. Also guaranteeing that it won’t be ignored: Musk’s frenetic activity on X, where he seems to leap into tempestuous debates without consideration of the political ramifications. The brawl built to a boil this week, as Brendan Bordelon reports: “The president-elect’s Sunday naming of SRIRAM KRISHNAN, a former partner at venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz, to serve as his artificial intelligence adviser caused panic among Trump’s base, with many fretting over his recent advocacy for removing country caps on green cards for high-skilled workers.” Musk and other members of the Silicon Valley elite, in turn defended Krishnan and mounted a vigorous defense of foreign labor, at least its tippy-top echelon: “It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE,” Musk posted on Christmas. “If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.”