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What I'm saying is that your thought process seems to be something like this:
What I'm saying is that Trump supporters don't agree with point #1 to begin with, so reasoning as if they did is fatally flawed. I submit that what is actually happening in their minds is something like this:
I am not actually a Trump supporter, so I'm not claiming to perfectly represent their thoughts. Just trying to show how one might arrive at very different conclusions from you if they disagree with the idea that he is just repeating propaganda. And given that, it isn't necessarily hypocritical for them to be unbothered by Trump's behavior while vociferously criticizing Biden's behavior.
How is that not hypocritical to you?
How is it hypocritical? The hypothetical Trump supporter I've outlined has not violated any of his own principles. He is not criticizing Trump because he doesn't think anything wrong happened, and he is criticizing Biden on a separate issue where he does think something wrong happened. There's no hypocrisy in that. If hypothetical-Trump-supporter criticized Biden for supposedly repeating Russian propaganda while giving Trump a pass, that would be hypocritical. But it's not hypocritical to say "doing X is ok but doing Y is wrong", and to criticize people according to whether they have done X or Y.
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The hypothetical Trump supporters' chain of logic you give is notable for its implication that Russian propaganda is actually true, or at least could be arrived as the result of Trump's good reasons.
So the charge of hypocrisy is just shifted to whether or not they will openly acknowledge a fourth point:
Sure, that is fair. If someone thinks that what Trump says is ok, but denounces it as propaganda when not-Trump says it, that would certainly be hypocritical.
Yes though the more common case is they simply refuse to address the question of whether they are now Putin supporters, because it is too confusing.
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