Projection Is the Sincerest Form of Trumpism
About the sudden interest in "grooming" . . .
Sick Day: Sorry I was AWOL yesterday. Now that the kids are bringing normal germs home from school, I take it as a sign that we are almost done with pandemic times.
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1. Projection
A couple weeks ago on TNL when #TeamDeSantis tried to turn “Don’t Say Gay” into “Anti-Grooming” I asked Sarah and Tim if this was a QAnon dog whistle:
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Anyway, I think we have our answer now:
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And then there’s this:
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I know what you’re thinking: Wait a minute . . . we had an honest-to-blog sexual predator running for the Senate a couple years ago and
I know! Crazy, right? It’s almost like projection is the sincerest form of Trumpism.1 But that’s not what’s important here. What’s important is that all of this new grooming-pedo-just-asking-questions stuff is a mainstreaming of QAnon.
It’s Wayfair and Pizzagate without the Q drops.
And here is what I want you to contemplate: