What ridiculous ahistorical snobbery.
Teddy Roosevelt was one of America's greatest presidents and he regularly staged combat sports at the White House, even fighting in boxing matches and jujitsu. Like Donald Trump, he saw physical courage and tough competition as virtues intrinsic to America. The sneering of Dems and effete broadsheet journalists reveals their pusillanimity, not the sophistication they imagine. How embarrassing for them.
David Brooks reacts to the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, "I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don't anybody say America's in cultural decline."
Jonathan Capehart adds "talk about degrading the culture. This is degrading the White House, degrading the people's house. And it's just unconscionable that this has happened."