Perhaps because the nation’s politics have become more of a circus, it is unsurprising that the nation’s circus has become more political. We refer, of course, to the Academy Awards show, that inflicted itself on America’s television screens Sunday night.

Culture intrudes on politics, and vice versa. That America’s ever-coarsening culture is infecting its politics is in evidence as Donald Trump proceeds toward the Republican nomination with ad hominem arguments, and with evident admiration for the Ku Klux Klan, and from the Nation of Islam.

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