Republicans have weaponized projecting their own sins onto their enemies since— at least— “elite pathetic grotesque thug” House Speaker Newt Gingrich. They’ve had a lot of success. But at least nobody takes their accusations of sexual immorality seriously anymore. A long train of visible Republican creepers morphed that projectile into a boomerang.
Similarly (or so we can hope) Trump has turned himself into a living reducto ad absurdum of weaponized projection. He is so clownishly obvious with it, so unrelenting in its use, that TV news people have not only noticed, but talk about it with amused contempt. He’s being impeached because of it— “No, not me: Hillary and Biden. No, not Russia: my and Russia’s mutual enemy, Ukraine. I’m not corrupt, you’re corrupt.” Etc.
Washington state representative Matt Shea— white supremacist, christian jihadist, civil war prepper, degenerate Trumper, that guy— recently took the practice to its logical circular conclusion, right up its own bunghole.
“Social justice warriors always lie, they always double down on their lie, and they always try to project on to you how they really are themselves.”
“I’m not projecting, you’re projecting!” “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, you sound muffled.”