Fine - lets do this. Because of my one off i already got downvoted and the general idea has been derailed.
Partially speaking. I'm not a Trumper or a right winger and would never expect Trent to be. But the sheer audacity of doing an album like Year Zero, which i hold so dearly, and to revisit those themes, a bit, in Add Violence and then endorse an establishment Democrat war-monger like Biden all because Trent and his wife got a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome from ODing on MSNBC, is a bit much for me. Trent always came off as someone, sort of like 90s RATM, that saw massive problems where both parties are captured by massive financial incentives. This isn't a "both parties are the same" but realizing on some issues, they are. How can you be against war and vote for a guy who has never seen a war he didn't like, never saw a set of civil rights to strip during war-time that didn't suit him?
Essentially for Trent to rubber stamp the DNC establishment like he's fucking WIll I Am or Sheryl Crow or DMB is just disappointing coming from someone who, honestly, truly, seemed to get it.
But beyond that - his open embrace of Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus, Halsey, and the short stint he had at a deskjob at Apple after the Beats purchase, it's not like i expect the man - especially a father with a happy family - to be some dark, brooding, suicidal drug addict. I don't. But he spent his entire career being "subversive", all for him to be some Top 40, desk-job, mainstream pop culture butt kissing, corporate little guy. He has wealth that most of us could only dream of and he's just became such a Hollywood insider, rubbing the right elbows, kissing the right asses. Throw the left wing /r/fwdsfromgrandma style'd politics on top, throwing a hissy fit and quitting Twitter after the Elon take over. And he just seems like a whiny upper class wine mom trying to stay relevant for the poptimist generation.
That being said - how he's grown musically is something to be deeply appreciated. The last trilogy was fantastic - though i'm getting tired of the lyrcal 'what IF i was still that self destructive guy from the 90s" schtick. But what he did with the Watchmen score is something out of this world and really showed what a score could potentially be with an album approach and a concept all of its own. Constantly exploring his jazz approach through Bad Witch, Watchmen and Mank has been really super refreshing too.