1. Mired in scandal, with foreign military adventure in the offing, will Trump "wag the dog"? We should be so lucky. Let me explain.
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3. In a sense Trump is already Wagging the Dog, as I explain here. The fear is he'll also launch a real war:https://newrepublic.com/article/147968/trump-already-wagging-dog …
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It was a pageant.
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Meanings evolve, Jeet.
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Why rely on a movie to get the meaning of an idiom? The idiom predates the movie. https://www.theidioms.com/wag-the-dog/
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You're being too literal "wag the dog"doesn't have to mean the staging of a fake war, it simply means: "A minor or secondary part of something controlling or dominating the whole or the main part". (A presidential scandal driving the decision to make real war, for instance.)
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"It's a pageant"
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Ultimately, yes, but people were already using “Wag the Dog” this way in mid-1998, just 8 months after the movie opened, to describe Clinton's bombing of Sudan amidst l'affaire Lewinsky.
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Wasn't the war real in the original book, and they changed it for the film?
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