Keep hoping! One of my very closest friends used to be a rock hard conservative. Got me into shooting. But she ALWAYS listened to NPR in the car. Never turned it off. And gradually it bored into her. She’s now fervid BLM and the topic we can’t discuss, besides Trump, is Critical Race Theory. She’s obsessed with the parts of her family that were against integration in the south. To make up for it, she’s rewritten her trusts for large amounts of money to go to both causes and the rest to the Democratic party. Poor conservative husband cut off from any decision making in the matter. And I’ve always blamed the change completely on that stupid NPR station playing in her car.
I, thank the stars, am just the opposite. After surviving grad school and then beginning a career in biomedicine ca 1980, I funded 1/365 of the annual budget of MN Public Radio. Year after year.
I was one of those folks they bragged about - sitting in the driveway listening on the car radio until the sequence ended, so I didn’t miss anything. I liked the coverage of literature, didn’t have to fire up the SW to listen to BBC, and the local news stories were always in depth, lacking the stuff we would now term as ‘click bait’.
As time passed, I recognized that their slant no longer aligned with mine. I am/was a classical libertarian/conservative - ex army officer/farmer/taconite miner.
Took them three years of begging letters to understand that I wasn’t going to contribute another penny.