David Frum, longtime columnist, pundit, and former speech-writer for president George W. Bush, penned an article in The Atlantic that, were I a psychology professor, I would present to my class as a prime example of projection. In the words of the great litigator Vincent LaGuardia Gambini: “Everything dat guy just said is b*****t.”
Following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Frum published an article in The Atlantic titled “The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator.” It would be easy to go through his article line-by-line and offer the classic admonition that people who point fingers often have three pointing back at them at every period. And, indeed, that is what projection is all about.
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