Savage does not seem to be predictable, can turn on a dime, and go “from zero to sixty” in a millisecond. I think it’s a function of I.Q. which, coupled with a greater long-wave historical perspective than most other people, yields a bombastic attitude.
When you are smarter than most people, and better educated than most people, and you’re old and rich and impatient enough to cut the B.S. (e.g. “You’re a great American...” “No, YOU’RE a Great American...), weird things happen. And that makes people antsy. Truth makes people antsy.