Trumpers losing their shit over the pandemic are evidence, yet again, that they are just angry *in general*, and their anger can be focused in almost any direction by entrepreneurs at Fox or in the White House. They don't even know what they're mad about; they're just mad.

You can see it in their inability to focus early in the pandemic, a few months ago. You could get them to play the "stupid media hoax" game. Now they've been repurposed toward "governors overboard" and "liberate [swing states]." Three years of Trump hasn't slaked the rage. /2

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 19, 2020

And this is perfect for the Angry White Trumper: People in blue states, guided by the elites and know-it-alls they hate, stealing a march on them by being better and more civic minded citizens than they are. So now it's "fighting tyranny," because they've got nothing else. /3x

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 19, 2020