One person I know who was avidly Maga in 2019 has evolved so much

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11. A friend voted for him in 2016, but was quickly disillusioned

Somewhere along the line, he turned into a hate-radio loving, typical Limbaugh conservative. We're staying on his land one autumn weekend during the middle of trump's administration. We've avoided discussing politics since his turn to the dark side, but that weekend, out of the blue, he simply announced that 'trump is an ass in it for himself and no one else.'

He's begrudgingly voting against trump by voting for Biden this go around, realizing that just sitting the election out would be the next best thing to voting for trump. He sent me an email within minutes after the debate ended and one sentence from it read, "Makes no diff, my party went to hell, someone took the mask off. I'll be a republican until I shuffle off, but I'll be voting for Democrats until my guys get their heads out of their ass."

This is all in a small, practically one-stoplight town in Texas. In 2016, driving down Main seemed one step away from being out of a Leni Riefenstahl film clip, but in this past year, has seen almost all aggressive political signs and stickers curiously absent. Fingers crossed it's an indicator.