There is also European AI and probably other places.

You may think only those two are relevant, and so every discussion of one party requires discussion of the other. I disagree with that fundamentally.

I'll be honest, I also disagree that one side is "clearly less evil than the other". For me, living in Taiwan and caring about democracy, the risk of Chinese authoritarian expansion and invasion is not a "speck of wood in the eye", frankly I find that framing disrespectful.

But that discussion is entirely beyond the question of hypocrisy. Again, the guy people accuse of hypocrisy said nothing of the sort that indicates that he doesn't see the problems of the US government. He merely didn't talk about them.

This isn't "shutting down talk about hypocrisy".