What apt description comes to mind
for those who, open-eyed or blind,
in this most perilous of times
choose one ‘stepp’d in so far’ in crimes
that no sane citizen would trust
a practised predator in lust,
an insurrectionist, a fraud
whom bullets swerve for, praise the Lord,
a tongue slick with abusive rants,
an arse licked clean by sycophants,
a person, all in all, obscene
in word and action? Gadarene.
They rush, unheeding, to the brink.

Thus empires rise, endure, and sink.