That just shows how ignorant these lefties are. I would avoid her myself.
Yes. One can always make new friends.
I went through something similar a couple of years ago, when someone I’d known and loved for decades - (and whose intellect I had always respected) - went ‘Obama Crazy’.
It hurt, but it made no sense to try and change her. We just never talked about politics again - and I decided to widen my horizon of Friends.