Socialism has infiltrated universities and left-wing parties in many countries. It is an ideology that does not seek freedom or democracy, but rather total submission to a single-party elite or megacorporation. They defend censorship and aggression against those who think differently. It is a totalitarian mass movement.
It's so overt, it doesn't even truly qualify as deflection. It's like somebody running a red light and crashing into a cop car and then telling them the other guy they cut off still waiting at the intersection did it.
There's a video where he repeats about having rigged the election. Of course his supporters claim that he slipped and met the reverse.
Someone posted a gif on Poli_Too of it, BlossomRavenski, I believe was the OP.