2023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.
Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021.
Hypocrisy indeed!!! 👇👇👇
This meme sadly sums it up better than most cable news segments ever could.
For years, Democrats like Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have thrown around words like fascist, authoritarian, and threat to democracy so casually that the terms have almost lost meaning.
They use them against Donald Trump, against conservatives, and against policies as basic as border enforcement, election integrity, and shrinking the size of government.
But when the target is one of their own, the standards suddenly vanish.
Democrats who posture as moral referees are perfectly willing to wave through conduct they would never tolerate from the other side.
A candidate with an actual Nazi tattoo, pro-communism posts, and a pile of other ugly controversies somehow still gets treated as acceptable, or at least not disqualifying, because he is politically useful to them.
That is not principle. That is tribalism.
If a Republican candidate had a Nazi-linked tattoo, mocked a wounded veteran, and carried the baggage of multiple vile scandals, the media and the Democratic establishment would be in full meltdown mode for weeks.
There would be wall to wall coverage, emergency panels, and nonstop lectures about character, decency, and the future of democracy.
Here, though, the response is basically a shrug.
That is why the hypocrisy is impossible to ignore.
These are the same people who want the public to believe every disagreement is some grand battle against fascism.
Yet when they are forced to confront something truly ugly in their own political orbit, they suddenly discover nuance, silence, or selective blindness.
At best, it is pure hypocrisy.
At worst, it shows that all the moral outrage was never really about values in the first place.
It was about power, messaging, and protecting their side while condemning everyone else.