Clearly not a smart “box office” move.
He must be satisfied he has enough “FU money”.
He just prefers to stay away from politics which is fine. This isn’t taking a stand if you accepted it but clearly the left will make it so. Maybe after another year or two of Trump the final remnants of leftism can go away at last. The real reason to care about midterms is that a democratic shellacking would really crush the politics in every thing nonsense. That being said, they’ll try to find a way to ruin life no matter what happens.
I don’t know, Cruise makes movies that are entertaining and avoid politics and hence avoids annoying any of his audience. I suspect he doesn’t want to get involved with any politician. If he showed up for something with Obama than my theory is wrong, not sure if he ever did.