That’s the problem with people who act in bad faith. You can’t throw it in their face because they know it’s hypocritical and they revel in the fact that they have the power to do it while the other side cannot. If anything, they think acting without ethics or integrity makes them smarter and more deserving to win. That the ends justify the means, and the fact that they’ll use extreme means only confirms their ends are more important.

It describes every Trump-era Republican political actor in memory. McConnell, Trump, Miller, Johnson, McCarthy, etc…