"Failed businesses" is some insane cope.

The impulse to discredit someone's "art" because of their politics has always stuck me as incredibly juvenile.

It's as if people can't imagine competence - even in some narrow way - in someone who doesn't share all their exact beliefs.

It seems especially silly because literally every great man and woman of history shares only a tiny fraction of our modern beliefs.

Just so you know, this is what cope looks like.