Possible Clues:

• Dismissed start of Roman era in fury
• Atrocity, scandal
• Offensive act not in fashion
• Scandal revealed -- time to entrap Republican
• Shock from power failure around end of October
• Fury when abandoning run leads to power loss
• Shock from right in power failure
• "This is an __!"
• Fury of Republican caught in power failure
• Furious indignation