hypocrisy

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In a conversation with the Bulwark’s Tim Miller immediately following Spanberger’s response, Buttigieg pointed out Americans’ anxieties surrounding affordability and homed in on a way to call out the GOP’s hypocrisy.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

"I have not seen so much hypocrisy in his criticism for a long time, and from all sides," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

It is worse than hypocrisy, because they seek to deceive not only others but themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass