I think this might be a missed analogy, rule of law isn't like a house that you can burn down and rebuild stronger. The default state without rule of law is ru

I think this might be a missed analogy, rule of law isn't like a house that you can burn down and rebuild stronger. The default state without rule of law is rule of the strongest. The law is like pillars that support a tunnel. Once these are weakened, the tunnel goes crashing down, and it has to be dug again. The society backslides to authoritarianism. And the price for digging a new tunnel is often a lot of blood.