What happened in North Carolina was a perfect encapsulation of the blithe outrage of the Trump movement privileged yet perpetually outraged at its disadvantage, incapable or at least unwilling to acknowledge the aces stuffed up their own sleeves as they lament a deck that is stacked against them.
Not only did he once claim on this blog that 99.9percentt of the purchases it flagged as being illegal were false positives, but he also criticized liberals in an August Chicago Tribune editorial for subjecting gun owners to rigorous regulations and fees, yet being outraged by "any obstacles" that could limit people's ability to vote.
His ability to be outraged yet humane, angry yet unfailingly good-humored, made him the perfect avatar.
Yet to those outraged by the crying unfairness and the cruel absurdity of the prosecution, the sentence is an insult.
Yet we are outraged that Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah might be involved – in Hezbollah's case, there is no "might" about it – in the same war.
The 160,000 or so residents of northern Cyprus will not, in practice, make much difference to corporate America; yet the visit outraged the Greek-Cypriots in the south who run the island's internationally recognised government.
They know that they can't stop the degradation of the environment and the overconsumption of power, yet they are outraged that the dam is providing electricity and water for luxuries like the myriad local golf courses.
Why is society happy that carmakers make a profit, pay competitive salaries and advertise their goods, yet it is outraged when charities do the same?Mr Pallotta produces quite a lot of both data and logic.
We might compare this to the bold, gutsy, shameless, world-class hypocrisy of superpowers that are armed to the teeth with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and yet are morally outraged when other countries want weapons of mass destruction for themselves.
