Every day's revelation of greed, corruption and cowardice fires his outrage and suggests new angles of attack.
As political journalists, we can hurl off a cheap comment piece – gotcha Tony, you goose – and leave it there; one small missile fired into the outrage cycle, on to the next outrage.
He seemed filled with regret as he mentioned the failure of his first marriage, teary when he talked about his time as a captive in Vietnam and fired up with outrage at Russia's treatment of Georgia.
Twitter in particular is where people go to take off-handed remarks with the utmost seriousness, to get fired up and outraged, and to scold others for not being as woke or smart as they are.
Mr. Johnson becomes the second interim replacement for Garry F. McCarthy, who was fired in December after outrage and protests followed the release of video showing a white officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, in 2014.
But the sense of widespread moral outrage that fired the anti-apartheid movement seems on the decline.
As we have seen, on the other side of the Atlantic, Bentham's legal philosophy made some headway but the underlying moral ideas met stiff resistance, and his supposed atheism added fuel to the fire of outrage bellowing from evangelical critics.
Astronomer Geoff Marcy at UC Berkeley was found to have sexually harassed women students for a decade, and when Berkeley did not fire him, the outrage among astronomers forced him to resign late last year.
Burn everything immediately on a fire of outrage and Twinings.
By Jeffrey Frank February 28 , 2017Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur in April , 1951 provoking outrage among Republicans.
