You have a very good handle on this situation. It's all about identity. She's a big gov leftie (as i used to be) and her identity is very heavily connected to this. Her friends and family are all of the same politics and are all deeply intolerant of any other viewpoints - probably because they know those viewpoints might break the coherence of their worldview. If my wife were to change her position on the MSM and big gov she would have to hide it from everyone she knows or be ostracised. This would be in addition to having the safety blanket of the goodness of big gov removed.

She will stop trusting the BBC and socialism in general long after most people figure out what the cabal was up to. I have to wait for most of the herd to change direction before she does.

Russell Brand

She thinks he has gone off the rails of course!