Doing so in the face of glaring opposition isn’t a good look, and at worst, it can give the impression you’re going out of your way to act like a brazen hypocrite. Given the thinner than razor-thin margin that handed Republican challenger Mariannette Miller-Meeks a victory, Hart wants a recount. Given the ongoing slow-motion circus of Donald Trump’s challenges to the results of the 2020 presidential election, some online critics are calling Hart a hypocrite. But there are ways to tell if you’re being a hypocrite—and luckily, for the majority of us, you needn’t have suffered embarrassment in public to figure it out. According to Whitbourne:Hypocrites are likely to gain motivation from a desire to look good, more than an internal desire to satisfy personal goals.

Source: The Nation December 22, 2020 23:01 UTC