We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
Those who are outraged will vote.
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.