Define stormie
All the unusual magnitude of participation from yelling and hollaring citizens at Town Hall meetings the Congress critters experienced as they were prepared to impose a secret death care system on the people. It frightened them because they thought we would be passive about it.
America has been much more stormy in its past than today.
What is going on now is a culture shift from New York/LA media centers and Washington centered public policy making to independent media and state and local people who make the country work finally taking a stand.
All made possible by a technology the government as of yet has been unable to control.