Russel, who was (and still is to a degree) a confirmed liberal, got "red pilled" when he found out about the Sussmann indictment. He was like "Wait, you mean it was all fake news about Trump and Russia?? What else are they lying about?"
I have nothing against liberals as long as they don't have their heads so far up their own butts that they are incapable of being intellectually honest. There are very few true liberals left no matter what they call themselves.
Being liberal used to mean open to new thoughts and ideas, not being beholden to any one way of thinking. Reason, logic, science...not the emotional BS knee jerking, me-too snowflakes they have become. To be liberal was to be very Jeffersonian. Then the progressives/Fabians made an entrance.
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
1787 August 10. (Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr)
I was raised to be a classic liberal in the old sense of the word.
If you do not know what a “classic liberal” is you might want to take a gander…things have changed so much that I think many people who call themselves conservatives might be surprised they are actually “classic liberals” or what we call these days libertarians. The split happened with Classical Radicalism…around the turn of the 19th century and the ideas of Marxism/Fabianism/Socialism. Radicalism has since morphed into what is now called “Progressivism”.
Notable Classic Liberals
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
James Harrington (author) (1611-1677)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Adam Smith (1723–1790)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Anders Chydenius (1729–1803)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794)
Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
Gaetano Filangieri (1753-1788)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
David Ricardo (1772–1823)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)[108]
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898)
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
I have read most of them as they were the precursors to the philosophies on which this country was founded. Limited government, free markets, individual rights....it was a crazy idea at the time.
Classical liberalism - Wikipedia