I think one (UK) aspect of this is that partygate provided a timely (and wholly justified) focus for a lot of painful, pent-up emotion. But now it seems like we've got stuck in a place where "fury at politicians" is the default setting

The Fig Economy

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.