So my SLF's side gig is helping out at an Asian nail salon (she's Vietnamese). She is a super patriot and of course has had lots of um differences of opinion with coworkers and clients the last 3 years.
I asked today if there's been a change in tone, like with gas prices, are people coming around that used to hate Trump now hating Biden etc, and she said it's actually almost everyone, dramatic and near-total reversal. People can't believe how dumb they were, how bad it is, how bad Biden is, they were wrong to hate Trump etc. She said even hard leftists that she's argued with are admitting things.
I find this report super-encouraging as it seems like so many normies just aren't getting it or you can't tell, but people have to be waking up without letting on is what I think is happening - in an environment like that they feel comfortable blabbing (there's probably a name for this, I can't count how many rather personal things I've heard in a neighboring barber chair for example).
And it wasn't just the report but when I asked the question it wasn't just like "yeah" but "OH YEAH. EVERYONE."
My friends SLF is hardcore (oldschool) lefty and while they use to coexist just fine, lately shes been jumping down his back to the point he has to leave. Along with getting in arguments with people in the real world. Hope she's at a pivoting point and is just taking the realization her side sucks a little hard for a moment. Hate to see her push everyone away over Bidens honor.
Normie leftist seem to have a hard time thinking democrats would be anything other than virtuous.
You are describing my sister and my wife's brother. Both fully-indoctrinated leftists. They believe that high food and gas prices are caused by "corporate greed" and OPEC. They see absolutely no connection between our current hardships and the bidet administration.
The capacity of the left for self-delusion cannot be overestimated.