There’s a rash of bad behavior among people who voted for Donald Trump. Here in Miami a guy went on a rant at a Starbucks because he didn’t get something or other and he claimed it was because he voted for Trump. Then last week a passenger on a Delta flight took issue with people he perceived to be Hillary Clinton supporters and went on a tirade that got him banned for life from the airline. The latest is a woman in Chicago who went a racist rant at a crafts store, once again citing Trump as the reason she was being “discriminated against.”
I suppose there could be some deep psychological reason these people are being so obnoxious about their candidate winning an election; pent-up anger at having to put up with a Democrat in the White House for eight years of economic growth and no scandals can do that, right? Perhaps, like the dog that chases a car and finally catches it, they’re freaked out because now they don’t know what to do and when things turn rotten under Trump they’ll have to figure out a way to blame it on someone else. Or maybe, as Digby explains, it’s not enough just to win; they need to see an end to opposition to Trump’s reign. Only then will they be happy. If ever.
Or maybe they’re just assholes.
Things are already rotten under Trump and he hasn’t even taken the oath of office. Hence . . .
His “election” has emboldened the RW assholes.
Q.E.D.