Doesn’t work that way in reality.
That whole “mugged by reality” thing? That wasn’t about conservatives. That was about “neo-conservatives”. Leftists that can’t admit it to themselves that they are leftists.
A critter wont change its spots. It’s a whole lot less rational reasoning than people suppose. It’s bone deep and to the death.
The only thing that changes, in reality, is the letter they vote for, not what they vote for or what they want.
Locusts. Destroyed where they were and now want someplace else to settle and destroy.
This gal has family connections, marrying into the Scalias, that might push her harder to the right. But her other connections (minority, immigrant) make her a stronger voice to abandon the Dems. All we can do is watch & hope.
I agree that there are a great number of Leftists who, even after getting “mugged”, will embrace leftism even more strongly.
But this is nothing new...in “The Gulag Archipelago” Solzhenitsyn described people who had been put there by Stalin, but who still thought he was right to put them there, and they cried when he died. Unbelievable. But true.
But there are Leftist who have left the insanity. It does happen as well.
Group-think? You've got it down pat.