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There's two kinds of people in this regard:
The "I escaped the alt-right pipeline" types, i.e. people realizing there's a cult and leaving it, and getting to understand more about where they've been and how they've been manipulated by an entire media ecosystem. They stop hating trans people, abortion, etc., practically changing their whole worldview as if leaving a religion. These I believe are legit because they make an effort to comprehend wtf happened so that it doesn't happen again, and they likely attempt to pull others out as well.
The casual types you described who will dodge a bullet here and there because a candidate rubs them the wrong way but they're still fundamentally the same: concerned only with incoherent grievance politics, and therefore deeply susceptible to the same manipulation tactics.