Opie has made some good movies, he was a real cute kid, that does not give him special powers as a political commentator.
He made some good movies but not great movies. Apollo 13 slurred the corporations that engineered the space program. Even Gene Kranz opposed that subplot of the Apollo 13 movie but Red Howard held to his evil corporation agit prop (I think it had something to do with “they cut corners” which was a lie).