For me personally, I think the best thing you can do is be yourself. Be a good person, a confident person, and don't hide your beliefs for fear of being cancelled. Don't go LOOKING for a fight, but also don't just nod and smile. Many liberals are the way they are bcause people are afraid to disagree with them in public. Liberals live in a bubble and an echo chamber.

I AM certainly guilty of nodding and smiling at times, but it's important for liberals to understand that there are other people out there who disagree with them. Disagreement is not just whatever insane caricatures they imagine up. It's easy to imagine your enemy is a modern day Nazi who hates women, wants to kill people, kicks cats, etc. It's NOT so easy to imagine that your nextdoor neighbor who you're friends with, socialize with, going fishing with, etc, who also happens to be conservative, does those things.

So, be friends with cool people, stand up for yourself and your beliefs, and if others choose to freak out over a small disagreement, so be it. "Because I'm not a bigot" as the OP said.