She’d have to chop a good deal of that stuff to exploit the full grifting potential available to her but I hardly think that’s impossible if she sets her mind to it, everyone likes the thought of converts to their own side even if not necessarily the specific person so I’m sure there would be room for her “Why I Left the Left” story somewhere in that ecosystem. JD Vance was a never Trumper but swapped over and now he’s the VP for the guy so a lot of crazy things are possible

They brought in Obama to endorse and campaign for El Sayed

While the 65+ got somewhat less Trumpy over time it looks like some other age groups have tilted more right from this (particularly the Gen X sort of range that will be replacing the boomers)

People have this idea that the old conservative generations will die off and make room for younger generations with new ideas. Yes, old people eventually die. But, we are in a society where the average age is rising over time, because the old live a long time and not as many have been being born as before for an extended period of time. So the political power of the elderly is growing over time, not diminishing. Additionally if you look at how they vote, Gen X is even more conservative as a whole than the Boomers. Unlikely to be getting magically better in the near term.

When I was a kid I thought “talkie” was such a ridiculous, funny-sounding word for the advent of films with sound. It was only years later that I realized that the word “movie” which I had never thought twice about was almost the exact same thought process for, you know, pictures that moved.