{"id":12014,"date":"2019-10-07T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:05:38","slug":"the-madness-of-progressive-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-madness-of-progressive-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of Progressive Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister\u2014and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral politics in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the hue and cry of Democrats in the last three years, they should have been delighted that the president was peremptorily warning foreign nations to cease to currying favor with presidential candidates and asking them to hand over what information, if any, they had of past \u201ccollusion.\u201d In fact, they were outraged and once again returned to \u201ccollusion\u201d charges, as if Trump were subverting the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>I Accuse You of Doing What I Did!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, projection is now an encompassing explanation for almost everything the Left alleges. After all, the Australian government\u2019s own connection with U.S. elections is only on the American political radar because in 2016 its former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, who had steered a large Australian donation to the Clinton Foundation, may have colluded with intelligence agencies to entrap George Papadopoulos, a minor and transient Trump campaign employee, to find dirt on the Trump campaign. Bringing up Australia is like the Left leaving a scented trail to its own past miscreant behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the Ukraine. It would be hard for any Democrat politico to argue that Ukraine was not involved in 2016 to feed faux-charges of \u201ccollusion\u201d to Hillary Clinton\u2014a fact even the liberal press once repeatedly conceded. Ukrainians were only too happy to meet and consult with U.S. intelligence officials when they assumed Hillary Clinton was to be elected, and their yeoman service in frying the sure loser Trump would somehow be appreciated and awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/10\/06\/the-madness-of-progressive-projection\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister\u2014and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral politics in 2016. Given the hue and cry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11805,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/clinton-projection-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":12014,"position":0},"title":"Clinton Projection Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s massive report. 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On her current book tour, Hillary Clinton is still blaming the Russians (among others) for her unexpected defeat in last year\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;George W. Bush&quot;","block_context":{"text":"George W. 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