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The show has platformed some bizarre performances and judges and contestants have been seen making crass and crude comments more than a few times.

They might have heard something about “Fear Factor,” the crass show on NBC where people ate sheep eyeballs and submerged themselves in containers teeming with rats in hopes of winning $50,000.

Mark Milley, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, allowed himself to be used by Trump for crass political purposes, only to seek public redemption after the fact to preserve his own self-respect.

We are simply too in love with the crass and the coarse to let go of it, even if that addiction contributes to the undoing of political and social civility.

Statements about dangerous immigrants are all part of a “very crass political calculation” designed to turn them into “hate objects so they can then be attacked and ostracized,” Mercieca said.