A fair point that I hadn't considered. The second quote still consists entirely of things we knew in 2015 before the author voted for Trump a first time and comes across as disingenuous.
... it's strictly better that this guy realized that there's a problem and spoke up rather than staying quiet, or staying a GOP supporter
that said it's very hard to accept that most people are truly proper fucking idiots, and cannot be reasoned with, cannot be shocked out of their confirmation bias.
even harder is to see that many times we are smack dab in the middle of the crowd that's blind to reality.