Speaking of normies waking up, I think also people are becoming less afraid as MAGA is happening, I am in Washington State, liberal hell and I have been having a lot of conversations in the last few month, even bought a boat trailer from a guy retiring, said he is leaving WA too many liberals. I have never been afraid of speaking my mind, even have blue hair libs leave the bar for a table, it scares the hell out of them to destroy their NPC talking points.
It's getting better, would love to return to my home town of Southern California, some day.