With all due respect to Rachel I’ve never really bought into the Trump is an intentional genius at distracting people from the thing they should be paying attention to via fresh outrage school of analysis. I think he’s just so consistently unhinged and fundamentally ill prepared for the Presidency that whatever fresh hell is being created and the scandal it ostensibly distracts from are essentially being iteratively produced on a constantly evolving assembly line of preternatural incompetence and psychotic reactionary rage.