I wasn't treating the Ulbricht pardon as a bad thing. I was making the exact opposite point.

I don't think his pardon was as much an act of altruism on Trump's part as it was an act of expediency, trying to buy votes  in the libertarian Bitcoin sectors. If SBF and his family had donated to the Republicans instead of the Democrats, he probably would have been pardoned in the first group just like those other scumbags, the Proud Boys.