This weird breakdowns on Twitter or ESS of voters not pledging fealty to Biden or Clinton, or breaking down at the possibility of people making legitimate demands, concessions, and pleas for relief and help met with disgust.
It's clear that both liberals and conservatives are quite reactionary but why do the former even attempt to pretend to be good people if they're just defending their privilege and identity?
It's just how they resolve the cognitive dissonance between their belief in the institutions and how easily those institutions have worked for a Trump admin. Either one corrects their fundamental assumptions that led to the error, or builds some sort of more elaborate explanation to preserve those assumptions. So they do the latter and think of Trump as some aberration and corrupting influence. All the bad things started with Trump, or maybe they were there but Trump made them way worse (read: we were able to ignore them previously). That's the root of Trump derangement syndrome.