Aw, this is sweet and it really captures a part of "radicalization" that often gets overlooked in favor of discussing more serious and longterm factors: the feeling of being a liberal and having your worldview dismantled -not just smugly sneered at, but actually unwoven thread by thread in a way that makes you realize the breathtaking scope of the world and your ignorance of it. To be alternately educated and dunked on with such pinpoint precisione that you simply can't go back to being the same person as before and you're not even mad about it.