"Would I rather watch the cast of 'Hamilton' at the White House than men pummeling each other into bloody pulps?" (opens in new tab)

"You bet. But there’s a chasmic difference between brilliant Broadway performers and hyped-up men kicking and punching for spectacle. I can’t bear to think what the rest of the world sees when it watches the most powerful country on Earth, the heart of democracy, descend from the hilltop into the primal muck where man-as-beast triumphs over the sublime. (That’s me being polite.)"Writes Kathleen Parker, in (WaPo).