Letter to the editor: Hypocrisy showing?

To the editor:

The faction that currently controls our state has made political theater of their contempt for national government. They’ve thumbed their noses at federal authority at every opportunity: environmental regulation, health care law, voters rights, guns — especially guns. They extol guns as citizens’ only protection from the “overreach” of illegitimate governmental authority.

Opposing that authority (“Washington,” as they call it) has been their faction’s national pose as well.  Opposing Washington has worked well for them, even when, as in the previous administration, they themselves held the power of the presidency, the House and the Supreme Court in their control simultaneously.

I’m trying to think of the word that applies here. What do you call politicians who hate authority and promote guns as citizens’ ultimate defense against government, when they profess shock and grief at the murder of law officers, murder by someone who thinks exactly as they do?

Are they “oblivious” to the consequences of their political rhetoric? Are they “disingenuous” in their principles? Or is it just their hypocrisy showing again?