When I look back on my own political awakening, it pisses me off it took me so long to become aware of all of the Republican bullshit.
Always an independent, I tended to be slightly conservative due to fiscal concerns, and beliefs around individual responsibility.
2015 was a major year for me. Despite it being obvious for years, I finally realized how the Fox News propaganda train was destroying the country. I caught on to Trump early during the primary and didn’t vote for him, but amazingly kept thinking he might govern differently once in office, until a few weeks after he took office it was obvious that his moronic behavior would continue. In retrospect that was ridiculous to think he would not be a total embarrassment.
I do think there’s hope for the future. I connected with two Trumpers last week that I hadn’t talked to in awhile and they are done with him and other radicals. Unfortunately, one them operates in the rarified air of the super rich, and he said a bunch of those folks are not only still on the Trump bandwagon, they still believe all the QAAnon conspiracy bill shit.