This is something you see in politics. Last year, ahead of the US election, a Gallup poll revealed that

"Throughout the Bush administration, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to perceive the government as a threat. Now that a Democratic president is in office, the reverse is true."

My reaction to this obvious hypocrisy was this:

People are hypocrites. People don't have any defensible philosophical world view that they apply systematically. It depends on who is in power and whether one feels allied to power by party affiliation.

In the United States, Democrats give Democratic Administrations a free pass, not because they are doing things that they want done but because they have a pre-conceived notion of how "threatening" those Administrations' wielding of power is.

-On The Hypocrisy of Voters: The politics of economics redux

That's where we sometimes err. We have associated party affiliation with actual policy when in fact there is no automatic consistency there at all. What is happening is people are saying, "I am a card carrying member of the Democratic Party. I am a Democrat because I believe in the Party and what it stands for. I have voted for Democrats for decades. I hold certain political policy choices dear. She is a democrat too. She must also hold those choices dear. Now that she is in office, I can assume she will act according to those same policy choices I hold dear." That is a false assumption.