What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider the rest of the comic. The elephant is portrayed as a straight man, while the donkey is calling him a Nazi, but the “Nazi” part is out of the blue, not related to anything that happened in the comic.
If you assume that the elephant is a stand-in for the author of the comic, then your explanation of “projected outrage” explains everything in the comic.
What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider the rest of the comic. The elephant is portrayed as a straight man, while the donkey is calling him a Nazi, but the “Nazi” part is out of the blue, not related to anything that happened in the comic.
If you assume that the elephant is a stand-in for the author of the comic, then your explanation of “projected outrage” explains everything in the comic.