If any of my family members “confronted” me with such bs, I’d just tell them that they are nuts, without common sense.
I have been blacklisted since 1979 for my political views (anti-communist in that era) by the Canadian public service unions and have been shunned by Canadian liberals generally speaking even longer than that. So this is nothing new to me, it is a net positive because it eliminates a lot of pointless small talk.