Sydney Sweeney's gene/jeans commercial blowup has become a masterclass in Steve Bannon's political strategy of "flooding the zone with shit" — overwhelming public attention with manufactured controversies to distract from substantive issues.
The playbook, as analyzed in Notes from the Circus by Mike Brock…
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