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We Are All Hypocrites — It’s Just How We’re Wired
A lot of people are saying that Democrats are being hypocritical about Tara Reade’s sexual assault accusation against Joe Biden. The very same Democrats who demanded that Brend Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court be rescinded because of a similar accusation have now declared that Biden’s denial is “sufficient.”
The people accusing Democrats of hypocrisy are absolutely correct.
A lot of other people accused Republicans of being hypocrites during the impeachment of Donald Trump. The same Republicans who insisted that obstructing justice was an impeachable offense when Clinton did it spent months saying that the Democrats were staging nothing less than a “coup” by impeaching Trump for obstructing justice.
The people who accused Republicans of hypocrisy are absolutely correct.
And, in both cases, the hypocrisy goes the other way too. The Republicans who defended Kavanaugh and the Democrats who defended Clinton were applying very different standards facts that supported their side than they did to a set of facts that endangered them.
And yes, I know that there are differences in these cases too — and that some people manage to find ways to make the differences significant when it helps their side to do so. But no serious, disinterested observer could miss…
