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The pressing relevance of the artist’s work for our present fraught era is irrefutable — not least when the dizzying transformation from analog to digital culture is harnessed to productive ends.

Yes, the heart-shaped lips and resting pout do some heavy lifting to pull off the baseball-loving mama’s boy, but Butler’s authenticity is irrefutable.

It’s not good, not great; it’s divine, irrefutable proof that God hasn’t turned his back on us yet.

Even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while serving as a Florida senator and member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “We have found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”

If it has any worth at all, “Happy Gilmore 2” will at least be irrefutable proof that, more often than not, the humor we loved decades ago will age.