One of the sad spectacles of our modern hyper-partisan age is the complete abandonment of principles depending on where you are in the political power game. You actually can listen to Democrats now on some foreign and economic policy issues and some of what they are saying make sense. But they are only making sense because they wouldn’t do that if they were in power. For example, Democrats are wildly responsible right now on the budget deficit, even when they gave us the first almost $2T deficits during a non-emergency situation. They talk reasonably responsibly on tariffs, yet they kept most of President Trump’s tariffs when Mr. Biden (or somebody near him!) had the helm. They are correct to criticize Mr. Trump’s lack of support to Ukraine and embracing of Russia, yet they refused to provide Ukraine the weapons they needed early enough and at a fast enough rate to bring this war to a conclusion themselves. And while they may be correct on Ukraine, they are instinctively “whatever Trump says/does we are against it” such that the bombing of Iran is something that should be impeached. Sure you can argue that it is only the AOCs of the party that say that, but there was no support from the Democratic leadership for the mission, even though Iran has been the biggest source of instability in the middle east (and somewhat beyond) since 1979 and had killed directly and indirectly many Americans. If Mr. Biden somehow would have had the courage to act, we all know they’d be singing a very different song right now.

But this goes both ways, of course. We now have a Republican Party that struggles to have a work requirement of 20 hours a week to earn medicaid health benefits (for those able-bodied men w/no dependents), when the 1996 welfare reform act required 30 hours. We have a Republican party that refuses to look at what is exploding the debt (the entitlement state, which Mr. Trump has declared off-limits, outside the limited Medicaid efforts). And the Republicans have completely abandoned the core libertarian truth which recognizes that the biggest threat to liberty is the concentrated power of the state against freedom. When Mr. Trump openly picks his favored winners (e.g., the steel industry) he is necessarily also simultaneously attacking other Americans (e.g., the U.S. manufacturers that use steel, as well as their employees, not to mention all of us as consumers). When someone like Elon Musk, who is a naturalized citizen of the U.S., can be threatened with deportation when they disagree with Mr. Trump it is time for conservatives to stand up and say you have no such power. The president is head of the executive branch, which means his powers are strictly to execute the laws of the land, not his own predilections. When Mr. Biden blatantly violated the law, even after being smacked down by the U.S. Supreme Court on his attempt to rob the treasury for the student loan “forgiveness” plan, Republicans rightly condemned him (and sued to stop him). And yet we have a law passed by an overwhelming majority of the Congress, lawfully signed by the President of the United States, and upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, that Mr. Trump now refuses to obey. He believes he can via executive order extend whatever time he wants to give for the TikTok ban. Now executive orders are in my mind constitutionally dubious anyway, but there is no way that executive orders have precedence over laws. And all the reasons for this TikTok ban are still very valid (a ban Mr. Trump himself once supported). Yet we are silent when Mr. Trump says he doesn’t want to follow the law because many of the voters that elected him like TikTok. What would we say if Mr. Biden were saying he refused to follow immigration laws because some of his voters don’t like the law?

Now pointing out hypocrisy in Washington DC is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, as they say. But have these people no shame? Laura Loomer’s X-post above shows it–an act is only deemed good or bad depending on the person that did it. No! Right is right, wrong is wrong, all the time. The biblical command for government action is always impartiality. Justice requires impartiality, and partiality makes you a law-breaker. Not only that, impartiality also helps you not have someone in your social media feed point out your blatant hypocrisy down the line!

Remember, People may fail good principles, but good principles never fail people!