Hypocrisy: A GOP specialty (Wisconsin ballot drop boxes edition)

 

Headline:  Seattle Times, 7/12/2022

Conservatives hailed the court’s ruling as a step toward making elections more safe and secure, even though many Republicans in the past had supported and advocated for the use of absentee ballot drop boxes. Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted, without evidence, that absentee voting in Wisconsin was rife with fraud and fueled his loss in 2020. [emphasis added]

6/4/2022 update, "Undated ballots edition", starts here.

Headline:  U.S. News and World Report, 7/3/2022

5/13/2022 update, "Abortion protests" edition  starts here.

Excerpt from New York Times, 5/12/2022 (top headline)

Though they have been largely peaceful, the protests at the homes of Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. have drawn criticism from Republicans, who angrily accused Democrats of improperly pressuring the court. Justice Clarence Thomas said the court’s conservatives were being “bullied.” Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, called for the protesters to be prosecuted criminally. 

Those critiques have drawn a fierce rebuke from supporters of abortion rights, who point to years of protests by abortion opponents in front of abortion clinics and the homes of doctors. And they accuse Republicans who defended the Jan. 6 attackers at the Capitol of hypocrisy for being suddenly gripped by concern about passionate protesters.  [emphasis added]

Excerpt from Kaiser Health News, 4/25/2021 (bottom headline)

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. — Dr. Gail Newel looks back on the past year and struggles to articulate exactly when the public bellows of frustration around her covid-related health orders morphed into something darker and more menacing. 

Certainly, there was that Sunday afternoon in May, when protesters broke through the gates to her private hillside neighborhood, took up positions around her home, and sang “Gail to Jail,” a ritual they would repeat every Sunday for weeks. This American Life logo This story also ran on This American Life. It can be republished for free. 

Or the county Board of Supervisors meeting not long after, where a visibly agitated man waiting for his turn at the microphone suddenly lunged at her over a small partition, staring her down even as sheriff’s deputies flanked him and authorities cleared the room.