They will suffer no consequences. Years later, in the proper circles, they will regale their peers with tales of their involvement of the Revolution. If they apply for nice jobs they will never fear that an arrest record will taint them, or admit to their bosses that they believe the system should be dismantled at 1 AM by men in masks if the zesty zeitgeist of the evening demands it.
That’s assuming they don’t get their revolution. If they do, they will be purged in the first wave, since the new regimes generally get rid of the weak and the useless. Sorry, Comrade. It’s not personal. It’s just business.
Read the whole thing.
Of course, it’s possible that the looters will suffer consequences:
Curiously, when Newsweek (back when it was owned by the Washington Post) declared “We Are All Socialists Now” at the dawn of the Obama era, they apparently didn’t conceive that America would wind up not like Sweden, but East Germany.