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Four years after Lincoln Riley arrived at USC amid gaudy promises to return the football program to national prominence, well, two words.

Baken and Baitz’s previous effort coagulated into some sorta cultural critique about the nation going to Hell, while “All’s Fair” celebrates some of the people sending us there in a shameless parade of gaudy excess.

During a broadcast this week of “The Five,” Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov took aim at the president’s plan to build a grand ballroom in the White House, calling it “gaudy and self-indulgent.”

Now that it is in our face with construction plans for a gaudy ballroom for the elites, as food assistance for hungry children is threatened, Republicans’ faint criticism is even more deafening in its impotence.

New casinos sprang up, alongside gaudy, luxury hotels and apartment blocks.