Been my experience that you get three reactions when popping the bubble of a liberal.
1. They really do have an epiphany. (Walkaway)
2. They cry as their entire paradigm is shifted.
3. They scream insults.
I have had a fourth:
4. They act like robots and just continue on as before as though nothing has happened.
(This is actually a good sign—because the “epiphany” may happen at a future point—but you don’t get to witness it.)
David Horowitz’s auto-biography of his younger days is Radical Son.
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Son-Generational-David-Horowitz/dp/0684840057
His parents were Communists in NYC and he was raised to believe in the tenets of Communism.
He did not come over to our side until he realized the Black Panthers murdered someone “for the cause”.
Life events are sometimes what it takes to destroy the old paradigms.