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If she had recieved the death penalty and been executed for her crimes (as I believe she and her co-conspirators should have) this wouldn't be an issue. The rot has been accelerating for a long time.
One of the first things any student of revolutionary movements learns is that failure usually means death. Given the current state of politics in this country, it appears to me as if they won. They're alive and most of what they agitated for has come to pass.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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