When Nobody Believes in Anything

There was a time when the ridiculous presentation at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony would have elicited from Americans no more than an eye roll, a shrug, and an exasperated muttering of “Europeans, man.”

But this is 2024, and unspoken federal regulations dictate that anything newsworthy must be reconstituted as a political issue. So the sight of creepy clowns ducking into an apartment for a threesome and drag queens re-creating The Last Supper sent America’s political-headline hunters into outrage mode.