Why would you assume it's about politics instead of the whole "shitty asshole boss who has open contempt for you and your coworkers, who is promising to massively overwork you, who might fire you any moment and has already fired half your peers"? I think you'd have to be completely insane to want to work there right now.
Well, there was twitter drama that preceded elon's buying twitter, and there was clearly a lot of employees pushing their politics using it. Hell, we got recent thread about how Japanese Twitter changed the moment the "moderation" got kicked out.
But yeah, asshole boss gonna be #1 cause here with literally anything else being barely related.
You're putting a lot of stock into this idea that the root cause is some left-leaning employees. I don't buy it whatsoever. But even if we assumed it true (it's not), if you bought a company where the employees hate[0] you and you immediately start antagonising them doesn't that indicate that you were the problem?
[0] - I don't believe this is true either. As I said in another comment, not everyone likes their boss. But many people at Twitter liked their jobs and their colleagues, and probably would've tolerated some cringe-y Musk tweets or a change in direction. But my sense is that when Musk started firing people (either en-masse or individually, like the guy patiently explaining the "1000 RPC calls" thing) that's when the mood shifted to "fuck this guy, and fuck this company"
