The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown by a theatre-full of showbiz people enraptured by Robert De Niro’s impotent scream of anguish, “Fuck Trump!”

He had nothing else to say. Nothing to offer but hate. He hates Trump as do so many in the room and beyond, with the kind of paranoia that trumps reason.