“Then they just degenerate into acting like children having a temper tantrum.”
But they still think they won the argument, even when they need their diaper changed.
ARguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon...
I concluded many years ago--after interacting with the Academic Left on many issues as a Freshman in College, that even the smartest of them are in pursuit of cloud-borne wish lists--never grounded on anything real. Over the decades, I have never found reason to doubt that conclusion.
You argue reality to such people and they are unable to process the argument. Their cause--their "ideals"--are always at war with what is real; with what is true.