If nothing else—though of course there’s plenty else—the ongoing brouhaha over the Kennedy Center for the Arts has demonstrated that the arts themselves are another frontier in which our current POTUS has the worst yet most assertive taste, primarily shaped by the cheesier extravagances of the 1970s and ’80s. The Kennedy Center Honors were always a populist affair, not to be confused with the somewhat more upscale National Medal of the Arts (which Presidents are also traditionally associated with). But under Trump, who shunned them entirely in his prior term, the announced next recipients are an almost comically MOR roundup: Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford, “I Will Survive” singer Gloria Gaynor, cartoon metal act KISS, cartoon movie machismo exemplar Sylvester Stallone, and veteran c

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