George F. Will was right to apply Newton’s Third Law of Motion to the current political scene [“Resisting executive overreach,” op-ed, Feb. 21]. From a psychological perspective, sooner or later, the targets of President Obama’s tyrannical oppression — men — will turn to outrage. The most important feature of outrage as a political instrument on all sides is that in outrage there is no room for reason.

So far, the outrageously discriminatory behavior of Mr. Obama’s Office for Civil Rights in his Education Department has been met only with lawsuits filed by aggrieved men, and they are winning with increasing frequency and for increasingly large amounts of money.

More broadly, however, the astonishing rise of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suggests that seething outrage is far more widespread among the aggrieved than had been originally thought.

To the barricades — and for good reason?

Gordon E. Finley, Miami