This is true, but it’s also true (if you are American, at least) that we’re living through a major upheaval in our governing institutions. So another way of rea

This is true, but it’s also true (if you are American, at least) that we’re living through a major upheaval in our governing institutions. So another way of reading this outrage is that when your president is permitted to do outrageous things daily, to collude with a foreign power to meddle in our elections, to defend that power on the international stage, and to help his family profit by that power... well, you may start to feel a little panicked, outraged, or out of control. The norms of democracy are starting to show their weaknesses. The assumed reasonable limits have proven themselves to have never been there. And it comes with a bizarre dissonance because locally speaking you may be doing just fine, stock market is up, etc. etc. That atmosphere also creates a kind of helpless anger that goes looking for targets and attention. It’s almost an existential coping mechanism, I think.