The anger, I suspect, is performative – written to be read, shouted to be heard, for the sake of being noted. Conservatives do this, too. They did it for eight years under Obama. Bad loserism is easy to succumb to. In the case of the Left, it’s unlikely to lead to a future win.

Left and Right are mirrors of each other. Conservatives tried to suggest that Obama’s victory was illegitimate because he wasn’t born in America. Liberals imply that Trump’s victory was illegitimate because his campaign was sordid or he didn’t win the popular vote. Some Trump supporters said that if Hillary won then they’d get their muskets. Now that Trump is top dog, they complain mightily that liberals won’t accept the result. We all like to proclaim loyalty to the procedures of democracy but the reality is that we’re only really satisfied with it when it delivers what we want. It’s the same with courts. If you win a case, it’s a validation of the system. If you lose, it’s a travesty.