As America’s political establishment draws its battle lines with enemies in Hollywood, real and imagined, the lingering unasked question – just how quickly can sidelined talk show host Jimmy Kimmel return to TV screens? – is a tough one to answer.

When these scandals erupt, the key players tend to play a waiting game. Eventually the opinion-fuelled American news cycle will be hungry for fresher stories. And the political establishment, who need fresh meat to feed the voter rage machine, will move on to search for more viable targets.

But this scandal, portrayed largely as a simmering conflict between the political establishment in the White House and the talk-show-powered Hollywood satire machine, has cut America’s political divide deeply.

It is true that this is about opposing ideas of

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