Yep. And even more than a distraction from the big bad ugly bill (that's one thing Musk has right) it creates more fear, more distrust of government, more vandalism (how many Trump people were there as agent provocateurs) and more chaos. All to the benefit of driving authoritarianism in the USA.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”