Category: Political Projection
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The Psychology of the Pollyanna . . .
. . . and the political ponerology of Leftism. A Substack article from exactly one year ago.
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Dumb Dems and the Hitler Card
Having been dealt a stinging rebuke on 5 November 2024, you might think the Democrats would learn something, for example, that playing the 'Hitler card,' like playing the 'race card,' will henceforth give them a losing hand. But no! The knuckleheads double down! Elon Musk is an exuberant fellow at the top of his game.…
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Should Trump Use the DOJ Against his Enemies?
Would it be 'revenge' or would it be a wholly justifiable upholding of the rule of law? Would success be 'revenge' enough, as Trump has suggested? His enemies accused him of violating 'norms' when they themselves violated the norms that matter, those rooted in the rule of law and the Constitution. Doing so, they engaged…
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Auschwitz Survivor: Trump’s not Hitler, but a Mensch
Here: Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, says that Kamala Harris comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is "the worst thing I have ever heard in 75 years living in the United States." "I know President Trump and he would never say this, and Kamala Harris knows this," he told the New York Post. “Adolf…
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Moral Community and Civil War
Substack latest. An exchange with Malcolm Pollack.
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The Projection of ‘Weird’ . . .
. . . is a weird projection. Unwilling to acknowledge her own intellectual and moral deviancy, Kamala Harris projects her abnormalcy into the likes of J. D. Vance. She is followed in this by her sycophants in the mainstream media. This is psychological projection so extreme that it takes the breath away. "The flamboyantly incompetent…
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Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”
Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…
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Political Perceptions
Only a leftard could come up with this knee-slappingly risible explanation why 'No Labels' didn't stick: The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party. For better or for worse, that party continues to be the…
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Another Reason to Pity Leftists
Leftists lack self-awareness. (That is what is called a generic statement.) They claim, against the evidence of his first term, that Donald J. Trump is a 'fascist,' a dictator, etc. This is pure projection. Projection is a psychological defense mechanism. Not willing to admit their own totalitarian tendencies, lefties block them from view by projecting…
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Liz Cheney: Profile in Political Projection
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one attributes one's own unacknowledged feelings, desires, intentions, attitudes, etc. to others. Extending the notion into the political sphere, the political projector accuses the other side of doing what he and his ilk are doing but will not own up to doing. I happened across a very clear…
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Radical Islam’s Threat to the Left
Substack latest. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes commitments to free speech, open inquiry, separation of church…