I don’t just mean outrage or regular rage, I mean shock that someone was to the left of “legal weed and free college but only for those that operate a successful business for 3 years in a disadvantaged community” 
takes.
I think federating took them by surprise, looking back. For about a week, those smug liberals were at a loss to even fathom what Hexbears were saying, and could only chant bullshit about how we’re Russian/Chinese bots.
Sure they still do that but they’ve slightly adapted to Hexbear presence.
Vietnam and Cuba are absolutely inarguable and Laos and the DPRK are still kicking. The USSR did eventually fall to sabotage after ~75 years, but by the metric that any state that ever dissolves is somehow to be entirely considered a “failed attempt,” and we would need to say the same of a great many “liberal” states.