That’s no silver lining. Coercing a power holder to “show colors” while “being afraid” … is only a recipe for increasingly blatant use of force and corruption to maintain said power. The result is that corps and executives will hire more private security, and their lawyers and lobbyists will pay for more regulations and special treatment. Moar fear is never a win for decentralization efforts.

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Correct. This was a primal act, not a civilized one. It begs for more primal acts, when we need more civilized ones. Slippery slope. This person is being celebrated by uneducated and unwise people embracing a fearful or helpless extremist perspective. Anyone who ‘knows’ is waiting for the dust to settle to figure out where this puts the conversation and how to avoid a dumpster fire with freedoms thrown into it.
The silver lining is that the US shows with this that it's not completely ruined, socially and morally. As opposed to Europe, for instance.