When I was a kid, there was a cranky old guy a few fries short of a Happy Meal in the neighborhood who kept shouting at us when we played in the street under his window. We didn’t say anything for a long time, until one of us got really irritated and shouted back to tell him to fuck off. And we were all so tired of being rebuffed that we all joined in, despite being of single-digit age and clearly disrespecting an adult we had no business talking back to like that.

This is what’s happening here at states level.