Trumpified Kennedy Center is for ALL Americans and the elites are raging

The elitist artsy set is up in arms about President Donald Trump’s brash takeover of the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.The “Trumpified” Washington, DC institution “should get blown up,” Broadway legend Patti LuPone declared this week.Performers claim to fear “Trump’s politics and his meddling with the arts,” The Washington Post reported — but what they really hate is that the new attitude at the capital’s premiere performance center opens it up to regular Americans.It’s about time the Kennedy Center was politically neutralized, welcoming audiences across the ideological spectrum.Certainly, the insiders should know that the arts have been failing to capture the imagination of the American public — and shows have been failing to recoup their costs — in part because their leftist partisanship has been a turn-off to at least half their potential audience. But the artists who’ve monopolized the Kennedy Center’s stages for years are howling.Robert DeNiro, at the Cannes Film Festival, complained about the center’s “philistine” coup in progress. Lin-Manuel Miranda yanked his musical “Hamilton” from a scheduled run on its stages. Eleven of the 12 principal cast members in “Les Misérables” say they’ll go on strike rather than perform for Trump during their June 11 performance.LuPone, DeNiro, Miranda and the boycotting “Les Mis” actors are clearly not up on their Hamlet.“The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” the prince of Denmark famously said — and these luminaries should know their Shakespeare.Refusing to engage now that the Kennedy Center’s leadership opposes their leftist politics only exposes their own ignorance, elitism and superiority complexes. If they really wanted to effect change in the man they so despise, the best thing they could do is perform for him — as Hamlet wisely advised.No, the truth is they simply think their hearts and their arts are to...