Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the fifth emperor of Rome, was popular with the lower classes for cutting taxes. Historians have called him tyrannical, self-indulgent and debauched. He was a man with several wives, sexual perversions and an obsession with performing for large crowds. He is also widely regarded as the worst of all Roman emperors.
Just as Nero was said to have fiddled while Rome burned, Donald Trump fiddled with his television remote while enjoying watching his followers’ violent assault on the Capitol of the United States in his name on January 6, 2021. A TV addict, he reportedly spent the first anniversary of his failed supposed coup fuming as he watched his successor lambaste him.
Enough is enough and we need to offer a commonsense coalition for this country and a more unified alternative vision than what we're seeing from the present GOP, which has now become rotten to its core with its persistent attacks on our democracy
The public deserves – needs – a full airing of the facts and that those at the top be held fully responsible. Trump was planning the insurrection for weeks. Now is the time for accountability.
A great danger facing the US today is the prospect that Trump and his top-level co-conspirators will not be held responsible for their alleged attempted coup to overthrow the US government. Inevitably, it means they could try again.