Being angry means you've lost control, the theory goes.
For example, if someone says: you are stupid, don't be angry (angry means to insult back to them, or to fight to them,...) It's his/her opinion, it may be right, but may also be wrong, just relax: okay, it's your opinion, you don't need to let it affect you, you have the power to choose the way you are! Talk to your parents about most of your problems.
If we, the electorate, permit as "normal" Candidate Trump's angry, mean-spirited political directness, we are really endorsing meanness, untruthfulness, explosive anger and political ruthlessness.
"He's just an angry, mean-spirited person," said Mr. Inverso.
Dick Cheney, on the other hand, appeared angry, mean and even at times plain annoyed.
Is it a surprise that we might call both of these formidable women cold, sterile, rigid, angry, mean — even bullies?
"He's not some kind of angry, mean person," says Tim Cullen, a state senator whose seat overlaps Mr Ryan's.Mr Ryan is not exactly a deficit hawk.
However hard she looks for something recognizable in this disaffected girl, "I can't see anyone but this angry mean person".
At a time when being angry meant being male, this play, without making a hoo-ha about it, puts women at its centre.
And, once again, one marvelled at the ability of Obama's opponents to hate with such a passion a man so seemingly impossible even for his teen-age daughter to dislike — a man who never takes the bait of rage, who sometimes seeks conciliation to crazy fault, and has said scarcely an angry, mean-spirited, or intemperate thing in his public life.
