The Roman Emperor Nero is said to have “fiddled” while Rome burned.
That’s not wholly true.
Rome did catch fire during Nero’s reign, but there were no fiddles or bowed instruments of any kind.
The original story, as reported by the historian Suetonius, is that Nero put on a stage costume, climbed to the top of a tower, and sang about the fall of Troy as Rome went up in flames beneath him.
But here in Canada we don’t need Nero.We have Justin Trudeau, he of the strange fondness for costumes and blackface, dancing while Montreal burns.
Anti-NATO, pro-Palestinian protests in Montreal turned violent on Nov. 22.
Protesters hurled small explosive devices and smoke bombs at police, smashed shop windows, and burned cars.
A coffee-shop franchisee was seen giving the Nazi salute and announcing an imminent “final solution” to a group of Jewish counter-protesters.
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Michael Bonner, a Canadian communications and public-policy expert with a decade of service in federal and provincial governments, is the author of In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present. This piece is adapted from City Journal.
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