There is a very interesting OP-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It posits that much of Trump’s behaviour are carefully planned MacGuffins. A Macguffin is a plot device, used often by Alfred Hitchcock, inserted into a movie/play to distract the viewer from what was actually going on.
For example, the day before Trump changed the asylum policy for immigrants, he triggered the media and the Democrats with some ridiculous tweets. They were so busy reacting that the policy change announcement was virtually ignored. They are so busy being triggered that Trump’s appointment of 189 judges and repeal of countless bureaucratic regulations have gone under the radar and unnoticed and unreported.
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