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“Could be a medical issue.” Doubt it. I've seen versions of this around New York City, where I live, for the last six months or so. Some of these anti-Trump people are so enraged that people they consider intellectually and culturally inferior — i.e., Trump supporters — are moving against their views that they cannot conduct themselves politely.

Last week, two months after the election, I was waiting to pick up my car from a private garage on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood where HRC got about 70% of the vote and Trump got about 30% of the vote. (However, we Trump voters were very quiet about it.) Also waiting for their car were two white guys who were arguing about Trump — one yelling that he was great, the other yelling that he was akin to Hitler — and a white couple in their 70s. Well, the white woman turned to me and said, “Can you believe this?”, to which I said, “I know. The election is over. It's time to stop arguing.” She said, “No, no, I mean that man thinks Trump is great. What do you think of that?” I repeated, “I think the election is over and it's time to stop arguing.” The woman would NOT quit: “But what do you think of what he is saying?! He actually like Trump? Can you believe it?!” At this point, her husband piped up, “Carol, she's right: the election is over. Stop arguing and leave her alone.” Just then, the valet pulled up with my car.

Think about it: this woman was giving me a hard time when I was merely refusing to engage in a discussion about Trump two months after the election. And I don't think she even suspected I had voted for Trump! She just couldn't believe I would pass up the opportunity to decry him.

So, I tend to think this obnoxious woman on the plane has no neurological problems. She's just like many — not all, just many — of the people who voted for HRC: smug, arrogant, and crazed by disappointment.

Your account reminds me of the classic “The Scarlet Letter”. In which what i’ve called the “tut-tut” liberal buttinskis (who represent in my mind anyway the progression of the original Puritans into the Progressives further now into the Statists, who will enforce their laws and regs by force of government.. run by them, the self-anointed elites) force an ordinary man, in the context of the religious community “laws” to be put to death... voila, for something he did not do. Daniel Day-Lewis played the character in a riveting movie of the same story and name. For... it IS a religion with these loonies... climate change/global warming, environmentalism/naturalism/neo-socialist- watermelons (green outside, red inside), and a whole spectrum of govt. run central harrassment in the way of freedom and commerce. Very observant of you — the utter insistence of them.. “you will comply and agree with whatever it is I say”. Visions of the Anointed at Thomas Sowell has called them.