BUT TRUMP SAID SOMETHING CRUDE ONCE: Barack Obama’s stillborn legacy: At home and abroad, the President’s agenda is in tatters. “Only amid the most bizarre, most tawdry, most addictive election campaign in memory could the real story of 2016 be so effectively obliterated, namely, that with just four months left in the Obama presidency, its two central pillars are collapsing before our eyes: domestically, its radical reform of American health care, aka Obamacare; and abroad, its radical reorientation of American foreign policy — disengagement marked by diplomacy and multilateralism.”

In a reality-TV culture, we focus on the reality-TV antics of reality-TV stars, rather than on . . . reality.