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Trump's first term was Nero; his second will be Caligula [1]
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Date: 2025-01-09
In the soon to be released epitaph for the United States, there will be many attempts to find the right historical analogy for the disaster that is the administration of Donald J Trump, convicted huckster and deviant, twice elected President of the republic.
For my two cents, I’m suggesting Nero to epitomize his first term, which was a disaster of incompetence, laziness and neglect, and Caligula to capture the insanity and sycophancy that already is manifest in his second term.
Unfortunately for America, I don’t see a Vespasian or Titus on the horizon. And unlike Rome — where Caligula more or less left the professional bureaucrats who kept the empire running — I don’t think much of the professional public service that has kept the USA humming for 5 decades (despite the dysfunction of our ‘3 branches of government’) will be left standing once Trump and his allies are done.
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