Generally regarded as the most prominent occasion for style this side of Fashion Week, one couldn’t help but notice that attire for the Met Gala last month bore a closer resemblance to costumes for initiation into a cult than a showcase for actual fashion.

Not coincidently, perhaps, Mrs. Bill Clinton made her first appearance at the event in 21 years wearing a dress that’s as red as the blood of her many victims.

Of course the journalese loved it. Vogue and InStyle lauded the “powerful meaning” of the embroidery that memorialized Madeline Albright, Harriet Tubman, Lady Bird Johnson, and Clinton’s mother, Dorothy, on her Joseph Altuzarra gown, which was all but indistinguishable unless one was practically ogling her, up close and personal.

Whatever your opinion of the former Secretary of State, whose many shortcomings include adherence to government email protocol, one can save the time and effort of a lengthy diatribe about this contemptible democrat and simply allow the picture above to do a lot of the talking for us instead.