Proofing and constructive comments welcome! ( Defining "projection")

[underahedgerow]

4. How's this?

It's called Projection. Projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.

When "A" politician has committed an egregious act, they quickly accuse politician "B"of something worse to try to downplay their crimes.

This is best exemplified by a 'true believer;' that person that will never, ever believe anything terrible about their candidate. They'll take your accusations as a personal attack and think this is sufficient to end the 'debate'. "Cognitive Dissonance" is a common phrase for aspects of this phenomenon.

To a rational and sane person, this appears very childish and even evil. To someone accustomed to verifying and qualifying information, this looks childish at best,and evil at its worst. As a rational and critical thinker, it's natural to understand that true believers must be simply naive and poorly educated.
Belief needs verification to become fact; that's the rule. Screaming one's beliefs very loudly, along with a personal attack doesn't mean something is true.

Best I can do in 5 minutes, sorry!