I wonder if this will lead to CEOs in the healthcare industry but other industries more broadly, retreating from any presence in public spaces and only traveling via helicopter from tarmac to tarmac or being accompanied by retainers of armed guards more or less at all times(which would only increase popular hostility and animosity).
The vast outpouring of support for the killer seems to me to show, that Americans may in fact be seeing terrorism and assassination as viable means of redressing grievances. In which case, its back to the seventies, or the 1890s perhaps.
This is really a momentous opening for the left-a socialist message of healthcare for all, expropriation of billionaire wealth, and the re orienting of resources towards social need could break the current impasse. A Sanders like figure but younger, more combative and charismatic.
There are potentially tens of millions of people who are utterly alienated from the political system, and would embrace such a "socialist" message, if it was delivered in the right way.
(I'm not saying this is a good thing, merely that the conditions for a far left shift in the country's politics are very real).
-Discontented and angry mass public
-an elite class that has no real response to this discontent except platitudes and further defending themselves
-an acceptance of violence as useful, perhaps even laudable as a way to enacting vengeance, achieving policy objectives or simply making a symbolic statement.
The recipe is there-if not for a Bolshevik revolution, but something like Latin America's pink tide.
