Once Caligula introduced a horse to the senate named Incitatus, Borzois in our. But even this was forgiven the emperor. Like the absurd appearance, inadequate behavior, ruinous policies, humiliating for all party members, free relations and unpredictable executions.

The Greyhound came to the Senate as a job, perhaps even pushed some carts, each horse paid for its maintenance of the Roman Empire, and who could not - said goodbye to life, because with every horse's head was levied a tax on the maintenance of Calligul's favorite, and for whom Did not pay - those let under the knife. A little more, and Borzoi would have been chosen consul, but it did not work out; The owner was slaughtered on the steps, as the Romans usually did with all the emperors named Guy.

But forget about Caligula, equal to him in terms of the scale of people-disasters in the modern world more (so far, if you are a pessimist) do not print. Let's return to Borzom in the Senate.

It is obvious to all that he is physically incapable of political activity. It is obvious to all that he happened to be in politics by accident. Not that it is not at will. But so did the wave. It is obvious to all that nothing terrible with the empire will do. A complex bureaucratic apparatus will not allow. It's obvious to everyone that he does not have a place where he ended up. But no one. Nothing. Does not.

First, the bureaucratic apparatus does not allow. It was much easier to introduce it into a bigger policy than to remove it later. Secondly, it's a sight.

Three things can be watched endlessly: at Niagara Falls, Northern Lights and Donald Trump in the White House. Replace the name of Trump with all the pronouns in the two preceding paragraphs - and it turns out that they have much in common with the Borzoi. In a big politics with long-standing traditions, Trump behaves like an ordinary, moderately brought up horse. Ignore all the rules of decency, eats where he wants and how much he wants, jumps in any direction, where his left foot wants, and every morning he deafens to the delight of thirty-odd million folovers in "Twitter" and billions of TV viewers.

He did not hesitate to rude journalists - they would see what he was doing with his charges. Every one of his trips abroad is an occasion for numerous lulz, but not a single major international scandal by some miracle has so far occurred.

In anticipation of the next handshake of the President of the United States with a new victim nervously tremble hundreds of lenses. And he himself three times mentioned the love of the French colleague Macron to his hands in the last interview.

Let's leave aside the perverted fans of horses, zoologists and cowboys - the devoted spectators at a round-the-clock program "Horse in the White house" are much more, than admirers of Trump. These viewers are not ready to forgive him, regularly pinching themselves to make sure they are watching the news release, not the feature film - but they are not able to break away from the process. They repeatedly quote him, make fun of him, resent him, look forward to the next meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are surprised to meet fresh "plums" about the new members of Trump's team, who also communicated with more or less high-ranking Russians. They no longer look at him as a person. By chance and a random wave, the White House was borne by someone who, from the political point of view, is full face and profile more like Kalygulov Borzoi.

Trump's presidential popularity rating is one of the lowest in American history. But this does not stop him from being the horse of the year. "Let them hate, if only they were afraid", - quoted Caligula to the tragedy of Lucius Action. "Let them despise, if only they could look" - one could say about the phenomenon of Trump, if it occurred to somebody to admit that he was skilfully directed by someone. But to think so is a mistake.

Smart political technologists live in the "House of Cards". In the White House, there lives an ordinary, moderately charismatic, moderately uneducated, professionally fit from the presidential point of view, a horse. He loves to eat and loves to be loved. And when he is bitten into a croup, he reflexively kicks. Once introduced to the White House, to take it out from there is not easier than Borzoi from the Senate. With that it turned out simply: cutting the orphaned pet Caligula's salary, he was fired for a formal reason - he stopped passing the financial qualification.

With Trump's impeachment it's more difficult: no matter how obvious his failures, the Republicans will never vote for his resignation, which is tantamount to a shot at his own leg - for then the party will certainly lose the next presidential race.

And since Republicans in Congress and, incidentally, the Senate - now the majority, it remains only to wait for the next parliamentary elections - that is, the end of next year. But so far, the bureaucratic machine saves nothing untoward and irreplaceable Trump can not heap, all unpleasant acts are blocked by the courts, the show continues, the red horse is moderately apocalyptic and does not bother the viewer.

All is well, until he presses his hoof on the red button.

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