Blah, blah-blah, blah-blah-blah-blah. Lashing out means nothing until they do something. Meanwhile, the country is being fundamentally transformed into a socialist crap-hole where racists thugs control huge swaths of our once great cities, starting a business is a form of punishment, and the oligarchs keep taking and taking.
Most people impute "temper tantrum" to "lashing out," as an act that is irrational and futile. Just saying, the article wants the reader to jump to those conclusions anyway. Lashing out is, by common definition, a futile act.