Part of this is about retribution. People on the right have seething with anger for years as they watched people lose their job for saying racist, homophobic, sexist or otherwise bigoted things. They have never felt this was reasonable and now to slander the Trump regime by questioning the sincerity of its mourning is the new n-word.
I think back on people who lost their jobs for not supporting the Iraq war in the early days after 9/11.
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