Musk tries to pick what he perceives to be the best qualities of what he perceives both the right and the left sides of the political spectrum to represent, and then to combine them into a "best of both worlds" ideology while removing the bits he perceives to be detrimental from both sides.

He does this because he understands how team red and team blue work in tandem to keep people in a "lesser of evils" mindset so that they always settle for some level of evil, and Musk's brain is wired to automatically try to solve the problem in the most convoluted yet systematic way possible.

He then tries to coach republicans on how they can achieve this perfected hybrid political ideology and ascend to the next level towards utopia, from his perspective he is genuinely trying to help them, just as he does with the left on occasion. That's why he's such an oddball to TPTB.

But he is also highly experimental with ideology, immersing in different views in addition to battling them, to understand all ideologies better, in pursuit of something perfect and yet unknown.

Punctuated by the occasional HAHA JUST KIDDING FUCK EVERYTHING NOTHING IS REAL ANYWAY HAHA