No government institution is too big or too small for the Trump administration to try to destroy, use as a perk for loyalists, or both.

Witness the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Long a shining example of public-private support for the arts, the yearly Kennedy Center Honors showcases artists who have dedicated themselves to making our lives a little better.

But then came President Donald Trump’s second term, when he installed Ric Grenell as the head of the Kennedy Center. Though Grenell clearly hates the job, he seems resigned to making the best of a bad lot, and what better way to do that than by turning the Kennedy Center into a cut-rate event venue for conservatives and cronies, a way to dispense favors to the favored?

Take the American Conservative Union Foundation, a strin

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