Some things go beyond mere hypocrisy:
Noted scholar of fascism, Hannah Arendt, observed that very often totalitarians would fight the hardest over and accuse others of harboring ideas that they, themselves harbored or were in fact already putting into motion.
Three decades before that, the iconic German father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, coined a term for a psychological defense mechanism that has now fallen into everyday use — when we accuse others of behaviors that we ourselves are doing, or wish to do: projection.
A century after Freud’s inestimable contribution, we must now add a new one to the lexicon: “pulling a LeBron.