hypocrisy

You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.

Aldrete says she's come forward now "not to shame their past," but because of "the hypocrisy of it all."

All that makes their position look less like a principled stand against judicial activism, and more like partisan hypocrisy.

But it's not quite right to attribute this to hypocrisy.

It is worth noting, here, the wider hypocrisy demonstrated by elites across France's political spectrum who have recently been muttering their sympathy for Le Pen.