Yes. It’s “not hypocrisy” when you’re consistent about believing rules are for your inferiors but not you, it’s a flex when you rub it in their faces that you are their superior.

That’s the hidden context behind the left-right divide; the right think it’s obvious that there’s a social/class/wealth/race hierarchy while the left seem to expect equal treatment like we all learned about in civics. When they go after Fetterman for failing to ‘respect the decorum of the institution’, they’re not arguing based on rules that apply equally to everybody, they’re flexing when they invoke rules that don’t apply to them.

The reason they love doing it so much is that ‘owning the libs’ reminds them that they’re superior while shaming or confounding them - even if it’s only so in their heads