Yes, Trump is a hypocrite. But is pointing that out an effective attack? | Jan-Werner Mueller
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Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:00:13 +0200

Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first placeHistorians and psychologists will study when exactly the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy started to descend into political disaster.
A plausible contender for an answer is the in itself trivial moment when Brian Glenn, representative of farright outlet Real Americas Voice newly admitted to the press pool asked the Ukrainian president why he was not wearing a suit.That framing the wartime president was somehow disrespecting America was then picked up in the vile attack on Zelenskyy by JD Vance and repeated by a chorus of sycophants in the Republican party including Glenns girlfriend Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Critics immediately pointed out the hypocrisy if Elon Musk can appear in a Tshirt and a baseball cap at a cabinet meeting, what is wrong with someone wearing fatigues That gotcha might provide momentary psychological satisfaction but its important to understand why the charges of hypocrisy achieve little with the Magaworld and why, as a matter of political psychology, something different is needed.
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