He's not the first the in @GOP to realize that, let alone in general. But he's makes it obvious. Hypocrisy is what you experience when you notice someone in the out-group acting in a way at odds with their *stated* assumptions and virtues in a context that matters to you.
“Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.” Trump proved that hypocrisy doesn't matter.
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When attacked people in the hypocritical in-group either don't care (the ctx is unimportant to them anyway) or don't perceive hypocrisy because their groups unstated-yet-shared assumptions and virtues overwhelm. They have sufficient accessible evidence to say, "that's different."
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Of course, it does matter in that easily observable and virulent hypocrisy is a matador waving a red flag that leads to constant inter-group collisions and further elaborated rationalizations which partition beliefs by accessible identifier even further...
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I think, technically, he proved that nothing matters. But that may just be a more generalized take on "hypocrisy doesn't matter," tbh.
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