If there was any lingering doubt that Hollywood has a decidedly liberal slant, this new report ought to quash them.
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, the members of the trendy leisure trade seem like collectively turning their backs on tech mogul Elon Musk — and it’s all received to do with politics.
The Reporter opened the report by mentioning unconfirmed plans for Musk and one among his corporations, electrical automobile producer Tesla, to unveil a self-driving taxi.
Nonetheless, the occasion to disclose that automobile — tentatively titled “CyberCab” — has been indefinitely postponed.
“However, if it does transfer ahead, the worldwide launch of a brand new Tesla at Warners is for certain to boost eyebrows in Hollywood and draw scrutiny towards the chummy relationship between the carmaker’s more and more controversial CEO, Elon Musk, and Warner’s embattled chief govt, David Zaslav,” the Reporter famous.
After noting that Warner Bros. refused to touch upon this report, The Hollywood Reporter pivoted to some curious editorializing of Musk’s distinctive politics.
(It’s not solely honest to name Musk “liberal” or “conservative.”)
“As Musk has continued his trajectory into the MAGA-verse — pledging allegiance to right-wing conspiracies, amplifying racist and antisemitic messages, disparaging trans folks, together with his personal daughter, and endorsing Donald Trump — his inventory in Hollywood, and that of his model, has plummeted,” the report states.
“Elon may be very outspoken, and his political opinions are usually not as well-liked within the leisure trade,” a Hollywood CEO (answerable for making motion pictures extra eco-friendly) advised the Reporter.
That CEO, Debbie Levin, continued by explaining how Hollywood typically ties their conscience to cash.
“The Tesla grew to become the ‘It’ automotive when it comes to electrification,” Levin advised the outlet. “When you may spend $100,000 on a automotive, that was form of the way in which to go to indicate that you simply care in regards to the surroundings.”
Ed Kim, president and chief analyst of Auto Pacific, a Southern California-based mobility analysis agency, advised the Reporter that even past sentiment and recognition, the numbers aren’t in Musk’s favor.
“Actually we have now seen gross sales drop considerably at Tesla this yr,” Kim stated, earlier than additional explaining that Tesla was dropping market share within the very discipline it helped pioneer: commercially accessible electrical automobiles.
“Regardless of all of the headlines, EV gross sales are nonetheless rising,” Kim stated. “They’re simply not rising on the identical velocity that they have been earlier than. However Tesla is definitely dropping gross sales.”
Alexander Edwards, president of a California-based consultancy agency, made it clear that politics have been part of this.
“Rejection of Tesla just lately spiked and continues amongst Democrats. They need nothing to do with Tesla,” Edwards stated, earlier than including that Republicans simply usually aren’t that fascinated with electrical automobiles to start with.
For Musk’s half, the eccentric billionaire usually appears imperturbed by all the skin noise.
Musk has made it clear that he wants as little to do with California (and subsequently Hollywood) as attainable, moving his main companies out of the Golden State whereas decrying the Democrat management within the state.
It’s price noting that, regardless of rising resentment from the left, Musk — who has come out in help of former President Donald Trump within the forthcoming election — nonetheless gives Vice President Kamala Harris the same platitudes as he did Trump.
But when this report is something to go by, it’s clear Musk ought to count on no platitudes from the left.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.