“Projection” - That’s actually a clinical term for a person who projects upon his enemy the very thing he is already doing or plans on doing.
Charles Krauthammer - a phychiatrist by trade - gave that description on TV of the liberals.
I totally understand this because I was married to a person who used projection all the time. Scary people.
It need not be an enemy. It can be anyone. And projection is often what we are feeling or thinking.
We all do it to some extent, some of us more than others. And it's the basic psychological mechanism behind paranoia.