> >It's a meme that's been going around (meme in the original, >Dawkins sense). People have been using the term to describe >the Trump administration's deflections on the Russia stuff, >noting in particular that the style of deflection (supposedly, >I don't know the history) was perfected and regularly employed >by the Soviet Union. (criticisms of the regime always >deflected with an appeal to some other irrelevant stuff going >on somewhere else) >