Projection Is the Sincerest Form of Trumpism

About the sudden interest in "grooming" . . .

Apr 5

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.

Demonstrators in Keene, New Hampshire, gather at a "Save the Children Rally" to protest child sex trafficking and pedophilia around the world, on September 19, 2020. - Anti-paedophilia protests are flaring in the US where the QAnon movement started. QAnon is the umbrella term for a sprawling set of internet conspiracy theories that allege that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who are plotting against Donald Trump while operating a global child sex-trafficking ring. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

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:

Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw

If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children. Silence is complicity. This is how it works, Democrats, and I didn’t make the rules.

Anyway, I think we have our answer now:

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo

Disney employee Robert Kingsolver was arrested for soliciting sex from undercover agents posing as a 14-year-old girl. "I work for Disney so I love to see dads having fun with their daughters," he said in the chat. "I really enjoy giving oral." cnn.com/2014/07/14/us/…

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo

@sullydish Name another company that has this record. Even CNN thought it was a national scandal a few years ago.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo

Disney has had employees arrested for child sex crimes in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022—in other words, at least once a year for the past decade.

And then there’s this:

Mollie @MZHemingway

The only new info since he voted against her a few months ago was increased awareness of her “soft-on-pedos” approach, which makes this new Romney position super interesting. https://t.co/n0oWhqiZUz

Senator Mitt Romney @SenatorRomney

I intend to vote in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. My statement: https://t.co/uGaxx8sJn5

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:

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Projection Is the Sincerest Form of Trumpism

About the sudden interest in "grooming" . . .

1. Projection

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