If instead, he had negatively imapacted the finances of the company by alienating the right, he would still have a job.

It's only CEOs who go against the left who actually get fired.

> They're allowed to state their opinion if it does not negatively impact the finances of the company

This is not a principle that the people who got this CEO actually live by or genuinely believe in. It's a post-hoc excuse for collecting a scalp from the other side. Let's speak plainly about what's really going on here.

Corporate board aren't some bastion of liberalism, they're generally older white man with money. Conservative much more often than not as that demographic tends to be. They didn't have some sort of magical change of heart in the last 10 years but simply do what is needed to make money.