You identify one of the gifts, the silver linings - they will openly reveal themselves now, whereas before they knew they had to hide those sentiments. They think they've already won, with Trump's defeat, he being the speedbump that threatened to derail the rapid "progress" that was taking place before his election. Instead, more and more people are seeing for the first time what the Statists have been doing and where it is leading. I pray enough do, soon enough, to recover enough of our liberty to avoid the second and third of Frederick Douglass' boxes into which men's liberty rests - the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Our small-r republican form of government is a true gift from our Founders and Framers (though I could do with a bit more Anti-Federalism in it), and we should use it like we've complacently never used it before, to save liberty for ourselves and our posterity.