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This happens all the time and is just part of the boring non-news cycle.

1) important person X says their favorite Y is Z.

2) creator of Z has different politics than X so they do an interview saying person X is stupid and doesn't understand Z.

3) the cycle moves on 5 minutes later.

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Also repeated from another angle: since the 1970s it is a known story that such tax cuts do not deliver the promise.

Every single time. My favorite is Variation B of this where aging rock star demands that politician not play their old song at rallies - the song they no longer even own the rights to. Instead of turtles all the way down, it's virtue signaling all the way down.

When did stating your opinion become virtue signaling?

They're not stating an opinion. An opinion would be "Politician X sucks". Instead they pretend that Politician X has no right to play the song and they demand it to stop, knowing full well that isn't how their music licensing works. At that point, it's clearly performative.

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