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.
To me the evidence points to those western liberal nations needing to break and collapse before they have any hope
They tend to become fascist when that happens. Besides if you're in one of those nations, "we need to break and collapse" is a dead-end political movement.