Artigo para O Estado de S. Paulo de 24/5/2017

Se não estava antes agora a alternativa ficou absolutamente clara: ou vamos com os políticos que temos, bem ou mal mas participando do jogo, ou vamos de fato consumado em fato consumado, a reboque de juiz que ninguém elegeu.

O juiz venezuelizado é o milico de 64 modelo 2017 só que sem a reserva moral. Só sobe ao palco porque é uma reserva de imoralidade. Chega quebrando a regra, sem ter as qualificações exigidas. Já cruza a entrada carregado de todos os vícios que os milicos só tinham acumulado perto da porta de saída.

Os ultimos dias têm sido uma avalanche de “pela primeira vez na história deste país” e desta Lava Jato. Em menos de 24 horas, no grito, os 2ésleys entregaram um Congresso Nacional destruído, todas as reformas abortadas, todas as alternativas ao lulismo moídas e o…

The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the year 192 did not halt the growing chaos and precipitous decline of the Roman Empire.

Commodus, like a number of other late Roman emperors, and like President Trump, was incompetent and consumed by his own vanity. He commissioned innumerable statues of himself as Hercules and had little interest in governance. He used his position as head of state to make himself the star of his own ongoing public show. He fought victoriously as a gladiator in the arena in fixed bouts. Power for Commodus, as it is for Trump, was primarily about catering to his bottomless narcissism, hedonism and lust for wealth. He sold public offices so the ancient equivalents of Betsy DeVos and Steve…