No one specific. Just the concept of the public spectacle.
Jan 6th is probably a good example of how the elite would react. Everyone involved would be located, prosecuted, and locked up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Post-presidency_(2023–present)
Brazil didn’t fuck around, unlike the US
A proper response would have been to send in the national guard, corral all the insurrectionists and put them in a camp to await trial there.
Speedy justice, all with insurrection and murder/felony murder as the basis for their charges.
Then you figure out how to work through the backlog of prison sentences. Maybe use an island for that or something. Far away from mainland US like Guam.
There you provide food, housing, schooling and allow them a chance to become productive members of society after their sentence.
That’s basically what happened to Ghadaffi
Going by that the answer is that Authoritarians will all double down to the point of seeking out authoritarian buffer states because now they believe that the democratic world is either conspiring to get them or a motivator to their people to kill them just by existing at all.
There’s only one way to find out
Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you’re flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that’s normalized.
“Ah, {countryName} switched out their authoritarian ruler for someone who thought FNV’s Caesar’s Legion were a pretty cool bunch.”
