Have you ever changed your mind about something or someone? I bet you have. You know why I would wager that? Because you’re human, which makes you capable of all sorts of amazing things, especially the ability to learn new things and adapt to that knowledge. Okay, maybe not ALL people have that ability—I’d tell Democrats to change their minds, but they shouldn’t have to work without tools—but people with IQs larger than their hat size certainly can. That’s why so many people in the media seem confused by the idea that some people have changed their minds about Donald Trump.

Right after high school, my then-best friend met another friend from college who started hanging out with our group. God, I hated that guy. It wasn’t jealousy; he was a jerk and I had no interest in being around him. But he kept coming around to that jerk and eventually I realized something: not that he wasn’t a jerk (we all were jerks), but that he was my kind of jerk.

We became good friends once we got past those first few months (which was quite a long time) of not liking each other. He was at my wedding and I talked to him more than the other guy. Life is funny that way, isn’t it?

I remember every time I see a “news” outlet reporting on what someone who now supports him used to call Donald Trump. People grow up, people change, and people see results they didn’t expect or even think possible and adapt to that reality. Again, by people I mean people who aren’t committed, ideological, progressive left-wing Democrats. While technically people, they are like stalkers who are convinced Taylor Swift is sending them secret messages to point out, let alone acknowledge, the failures of their beliefs or actions.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance wasn’t always a fan of Donald Trump. Vance said some very harsh things about Trump in the 2016 race, when he was still a bestselling author and venture capitalist. I had said it. And almost everyone I know in politics, famous and otherwise, had said it. Why wouldn’t we?

The only thing anyone knew about Trump was what he said on the campaign trail, his TV show, and what we read in the newspapers for decades. His core philosophy didn’t seem very core because he was on either side of whatever was happening at any given time. He didn’t have to be consistent because he didn’t operate in the world of politics, only on the fringes.

You saw his pictures with Ronald Reagan and the Clintons. They took their picture with him for the same reason he took his picture with them: they were famous. Nothing was more profound than what rich and famous people do.

Then Trump was elected president. In that role, he exceeded almost everyone’s expectations (I know Ann Coulter’s weren’t, but almost everyone else’s). That’s not to say that Trump Derangement Syndrome didn’t have its victims—some people never came around, no matter how many of their sworn life priorities Trump actually implemented. These Humpty Dumpties will forever be breaking themselves into smaller and smaller pieces, unable to admit what’s right in front of them.

Everyone has opened their eyes.

That won’t stop the left, however, from trying to drive a wedge between people on the right over Trump. “Tucker Carlson Praises Trump as ‘Bravest Man’ in RNC Speech After Telling Staffer, ‘I Hate Him With a Passion,’” screams one headline. Another reads, “Elon Musk Called Trump a ‘Stone Cold Loser,’ According to NYT Report on Billionaire’s Rock-Solid Relationship With Ex-President.” Now they’re both endorsing him. What does that mean? (BTW, I know Tucker, and that’s just how he talks/texts. That’s how most people do; no one interesting is nuanced in text. As for Musk, I don’t know him, though I’d ​​like to—text me, E—but I’ve read Walter Isaacson’s book about him a few times, and he changes his mind as new facts emerge. It’s how he got to space and how he’ll get to Mars.)

Well, the negative quotes are from years ago, which means Tucker and Elon had to digest new information, process it, and come to different conclusions. Or, while they still hold to their previous beliefs, they’ve seen Joe Biden and the Democrats in action and recognize how much better Trump is in comparison. Either way, they’ve changed their minds.

It is a sign of intelligence to absorb new facts and circumstances and adjust your thinking, which is why no one on MSNBC has ever done that. Okay, they have changed in the sense that they have gone from “Trump is Hitler” to “Trump is Mecha-Hitler” to “Trump is Super-Mecha-Hitler,” but self-affirmation is not what I am talking about.

Humans, intelligent beings, admit when they are wrong and learn from it. How stupid would you be if you stuck to everything you thought when you were 20? I would be a dope-smoking idiot, probably with a rotten liver, and I would have none of my best friends. If I stuck to what I thought as of mid-June 2015, I would be my underpants cheering on Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and the rest of their Reich Cabinet of National Salvation in front of an LED screen pretending to be at the Republican convention on MSNBC. But I am not. And neither are you. Fewer and fewer people are, which only confirms what I have already said here.

This is why Democrats are rushing to replace Biden. They don’t have any other game, so they’re going to try to play the same game again with someone else at the top. Maybe the media should focus a little bit more on the reality of that, not just the surface facts, instead of how people thought differently about someone years ago than they do now.

Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and the author of the book Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hate to manipulate the masses. He also hosts the weekly podcast “Week in F*cking Review,” which tells the news the way it should be told. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.