I can relate. The Covid/ vaxx hysteria flipped me over from being a "Sandernista" ever since 2016 to a Trump-supporter (though certainly not a vocal one in RL) in 2021. It really was as though the big-city, blue-state PMC wanted desperately to mint as many new Trump supporters as possible. I think the reason this didn't really show up in the previous election is that the Uranus-Saturn Square in effect at the time was too formidable an oppressive influence for any political damns to break, and the Democratic Party's election-cheating apparatus (which succeeds by adding between one and two percent to the ostensible total to the "favored" candidate's percentage of the vote in close races) has become pretty sophisticated.