So how is it going for them?

Last Friday, approximately 30,000 people attended Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston, Texas.

Last Saturday, around 20,000 people attended Donald Trump’s campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Last Friday, approximately 65,000 fans filled the Superdome in New Orleans to see Taylor Swift perform. And he paid dearly to do it.

Last Sunday, an estimated 62,000 football fans shelled out big bucks to see Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, score his first touchdown of the season as the Kansas City Chiefs – the only remaining undefeated team in the National League football – beat the Raiders, 27. -20 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas (yes Chiefs Kingdom!).

Each of these expensive events attracted more in-person attendees than Harris and Trump’s “free” events… combined.

Oh, and this weekend, Marvel’s third film Venom the franchise opened with a “disappointing” $51 million in U.S. ticket sales. With an average ticket price of around $12, that means 85 times more Americans decided to spend a few hours with Tom Hardy than with Trump or Harris.

Media coverage of presidential campaigns makes them the most important event, 24/7, for months.

The Americans obviously do not agree. They would rather attend a concert, sporting event or movie than a campaign event.

I suspect many of them prefer mowing the lawn or doing laundry too.

And who can blame them? To repeat an old saw that I have already cited, politics is the Hollywood of ugly people… and of ugliness in general.

Every presidential campaign is one big bad trip of dueling ideological and moral accusations, all disgusting, most of them true.

We would all be better off if we could safely ignore it in favor of almost anything else.

Unfortunately, he refuses to ignore us.

Whoever wins the presidency, we will all be worse off than if the White House were torn down, its occupants put to flight, and salt sown in the earth where it once stood.

But at least we’ll have some entertainment to distract us from the inevitable carnage, right?