With TFG and various others it's true projection, but I'd say for McCarthy and many others it's simply a comms strategy (while also a comms strategy for the truly projecting group). It's the Bannon adage of flooding the zone with s*it so the low-information, low-engagement voter registers that X is just a typical charge that politicians …
With TFG and various others it's true projection, but I'd say for McCarthy and many others it's simply a comms strategy (while also a comms strategy for the truly projecting group). It's the Bannon adage of flooding the zone with s*it so the low-information, low-engagement voter registers that X is just a typical charge that politicians on both sides throw around. TFG's a Russian stooge? Well, Biden's a Chinese stooge. Trump family corruption/criminality: Hunter Biden. R election denial: Hakeem Jeffries and Hillary Clinton are both election deniers. Russian election interference: student debt relief is now defined as election interference. The accusations become part of the normal partisan background noise that low-info voters just tune out (both sides just make wild accusations or they're both equally bad), and it's a useful "whatabout" talking point for their supporters.
With TFG and various others it's true projection, but I'd say for McCarthy and many others it's simply a comms strategy (while also a comms strategy for the truly projecting group). It's the Bannon adage of flooding the zone with s*it so the low-information, low-engagement voter registers that X is just a typical charge that politicians on both sides throw around. TFG's a Russian stooge? Well, Biden's a Chinese stooge. Trump family corruption/criminality: Hunter Biden. R election denial: Hakeem Jeffries and Hillary Clinton are both election deniers. Russian election interference: student debt relief is now defined as election interference. The accusations become part of the normal partisan background noise that low-info voters just tune out (both sides just make wild accusations or they're both equally bad), and it's a useful "whatabout" talking point for their supporters.