A woman spews profanities as she hurls items from her shopping cart to the supermarket floor, her other hand clutching an unused face mask. In a distant Trader Joe’s, another woman flings her shopping basket down and screams, “You’re fucking Democratic pigs!” at the masked employees escorting her out of the store. In a Florida Walmart, a gray-haired man repeatedly shoves an employee trying to block him from entering the building without a mask.

These are the so-called Karens (and