YMMV but I think its more socially acceptable to be a conservative/Trump supporter today than it was 6-7 years ago.
Not sure about compared to 6-7 years, but, compared to 10 years ago, definitely not. I was at Vandy from 2014 to 2018, and I promise you that conservative views were received way better (and probably more common in general) in 2014 than in 2018. I'm pretty sure that the student body president my freshman year was a Republican or at least very moderate. Even my sophomore year, while I'd doubt that the president would identify as a Republican, campus polling showed that the winning ticket won off of the support of the more conservative half of the campus. Trump becoming the face of the GOP was the turning point.
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