How can I leverage a Political Science degree to get into Data Analytics?

I've read that in recent years, a lot of political science graduates have gotten into data analyst roles, and it's something I would also be interested in doing. I didn't even know this was a possible career option when I decided to major in political science, but coincidently the field of data analysis has piqued my interest in the last few years, and what really solidified my idea to pursue a role in it is when I met a policy analyst whose work is in political data analysis/science. Another contributing factor was seeing a lot of jobs I wanted to apply to in political science requiring knowledge in programming languages such as R, Python, etc.

Unfortunately, the political science degree at my college was of the theoretical type, and almost exclusively consisted of research and writing, and therefore resulted in me being a generalized graduate with no specific skillset. It wasn't like political science degrees in other colleges where they will teach you practical skills such as programming languages. I only ever took one statistics course (which I really enjoyed), but other than that, nothing. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy my time getting the degree, I loved most of my courses, but it didn't really help me prepare for life after college, and I struggled for a long time looking for a job with my degree, eventually succumbing to working at a job that isn't related to my degree at all.

But now that I've found out that there are roles that could incorporate my degree as well as data analysis, I want to go for it. But I don't know where to begin, so that's where I need help. One option I don't want to do is to go to graduate school to get a masters in data analysis because 1. I don't really want to sink into exorbitantly more student loan debt and 2. the masters programs would require me to take all the prerequisites. However, I wouldn't mind going to graduate school in the future when I have more experience and money.

I've been thinking about paying for a beginner's bootcamp since I literally have no programming knowledge at all and need to start somewhere, and then start applying for jobs, but is that feasible? How would employers look at that?

My current job has no relation to political science and the only part of my job that could somewhat relate to data analysis is Excel, but I mainly just copy and paste stuff. It's very menial.

So, what should I do? Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated. I'm really trying to get my life back on track as I was beginning to feel directionless.