Can it be that Republicans can only attribute to others the evil motives that the Republicans have themselves? In psychiatry, I think they call that projection.

From Dr. Sanity:

Projection – attributing one’s own unacknowledged feelings to others; includes severe prejudice, severe jealousy, hypervigilance to external danger, and “injustice collecting”. (EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE , EXAMPLE (remember that projection is a primitive form of paranoia, so it is common in today’s world)

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