Lock him up: why the debate about indicting a sitting president is seriously ridiculous and ridiculously dangerous

Nero notoriously fiddled while Rome burned.

In America, right now, our similarly reckless and feckless contemporary head of state Donald Trump has us all trying to put out the fire burning up America. Unlike Nero, though, Trump doesn’t fiddle; he’s too busy fanning the flames. Even worse, he lit the match — after dousing the country in gasoline.