distraction

For now, at least, I think we should treat Trump’s third-term threats as another attempt to drive the libs to distraction, and my hope is that they don’t take the bait.

McBride, for her part, has said the Republican trans panic is nothing more than a distraction from the unpopular parts of the Republican agenda.

“Everything else,” Cronin said, “is a distraction, and people worry about so many other things instead of just trying to get better.”

He has spoken openly about how he avoids distractions outside football.

The craven implication is that civil rights for a minority of students is somehow a distraction from improving educational outcomes.