The biggest, most damaging and destructive hypocrisy was their insistence on higher interest rates, smaller deficits, and reduced spending when the economy was in the tank and unemployment was 9%. All that talk about debasing the currency and unsustainable deficits was all hypocritical, given their current insistence on lower rates and higher spending when unemployment is at record lows. Unlike their BS about impeachment timing or Christmas wars, their economic hypocrisy had real and lasting effects on the economy, on people’s lives, and on our long-term health as a nation. Opening up spending in 2010 to repair infrastructure would have helped unemployed people, of course, but would also have lead to knock-on effects of more consumer spending and, yes, a better infrastructure. Instead, we had spending caps and smaller deficits, all while employment was 9%.
As soon as they gain power, they open up the spending spigots, cut taxes, and blow up the deficit, all while insisting on lower rates with an economy that’s at full employment, with a bull market in stocks.
This was the real hypocrisy, and it led to lots of personal misery for many years, and reduced the standard of living for many people permanently. The rest of their hypocrisy is small potatoes compared to this.
Okay, I’ll play. I mean, we’ve got threadfuls on actual substantiated examples but why not.
Modern Republicans go on and on about “respecting” the Constitution, the rule of law and the Bible. Based on actual behaviors, most of them seem to “respect” all three of them the same way they “respect” a woman by leaving an extra $20 on the nightstand on the way out.