Take it from a magician: Trump isn’t trying to distract us, he’s misdirecting us

Critics of President Trump routinely depict his maneuvers — such as shutting down the government and threatening to close the southern border — as distractions. “He loves the distraction from his other problems,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has said. Ezra Klein, a political commentator and editor at Vox, goes so far as to declare distraction “the core of Donald Trump's political strategy.”
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