For the mixer policy to be reversed, the legal environment would have to improve a lot. I think that one of these would have to happen:
- Some mixers win their court cases.
- Congress passes laws which explicitly protect mixers.
- The administration ends up being extremely pro-privacy, better than 99% of politicians in office.
The government are going for mixers with obvious and hard to deny evidence. They are linked to fraud directly. I indirectly see this as mixers will not be allowed on this forum. I see mixers as something like a weapon like knives which is very beneficial for people generally but which can also be used by killers and bad people to kill someone. But the way it is, the United States government will not see mixers as something good as they are not thinking of the good side but only of the bad sides with evidences.
It's the government for you, once something is out of their reach to see beyond and control it they find a way to shut it down and mixes are the direct ideal of such base of the privacy and behind the scenes control that enable it to be use actively for illegal means. So mixers being reinstated is definitely gonna be a wild dream and besides even the new government with Donald trump's first impression, I don't think it's safe to believe in all he said about Bitcoin during campaign