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The Kennedy Center Is A Shrine To The D.C. Decadence. Tear It Down

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In the nearly 15 years I lived in Washington, D.C., I probably visited the Kennedy Center just a handful of times, but what’s more important to know about the center isn’t the building or who performs there. It’s the center’s location in the city and the people there who claim it as a status symbol.

President Trump, who is threatening to demolish the center, is currently in a showdown with courts and Democrats fighting him tooth and nail lest it be approved that the building bear his name as part of a planned renovation. Parties involved who are not aligned with Trump are predictably outraged that he would impose his name on another landmark, which of course is as tacky as ever, but as usual, in their seething anger they reveal the grotesque nature of whatever it is they’re defending.

Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott wrote this week of the center’s majesty. “It offered free performances for passersby; it attracted the black-tie crowd and guys in cargo shorts; it jostled tourists and locals together — and if you spent even a moment eavesdropping, it was a proper Babel of tongues,” he wrote Thursday, with the most........

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