TL;DR: A small percentage of voters woke up and smelled the coffee, but there are still a lot of stupid/willfully ignorant people out there.
I think it would be more accurate to say a small percentage of Republicans have recently been negatively affected personally.
And we need to start talking about how we’re going to deal with them after the midterms/2029. As far as I’m concerned their support of this regime should cost them dearly, both monetarily (to fix what they’ve wrought) as well as losing their right to vote. If they don’t want democracy they lose their ability to steal it from the rest of us.