> These days it seems no matter what you do %50 of the public will not like it. Trying times for advertisers and celebrities.

This seems like a bad take for Musk specifically.

He's going out of his way to vocally court the MAGA-right, it's not like he's just living his life and suddenly people are mad.

One can be more specific about likes and dislikes. I dislike racists. I dislike people who think trans and gay people should be invisible. I dislike religious bigots. I dislike fascists. I dislike White supremacists. I dislike members of brown shirt gangs. Those kinds of social pathologies are always a bundle deal. It's never just one of those things.

Dislikes can be pretty weak, but still should be observed by operators of commercial spaces. Monks in robes passing out flowers might be pretty innocuous, except for the whole religious cult thing, but if you're a store owner you don't want them in the mall. Brown shirts are a lot worse.

Hopefully it leads to a lot of businesses who are overburdened with nonessential trappings of public posturing. Makes it easier for the rest of us to compete by simply executing well.

Musk isn't running for office. Politics is always about who you like, even office politics, else brown-nosing and loyalty wouldn't be a thing.

Michael Jordan was careful and successful in not having social/political stuff affect his business. But he was in a more underdog class. Musk is already an overdog.

This is known as "identity politics". Another concept in politics are "single issue voters". There's a big push to transition single issue voters towards an identity based view.