False equivalencies are conservative bread and butter, make it look like your opponent does what you do because conservatives wont care, but liberals might. Back when I had more energy for social media, when I would see stories like this I would tell a little story I made up to make the point.

A conservative drives to his opponents house in the middle of the night, taking a can of gasoline he dumps gas all over the front of his opponents house. Striking a match, he gleefully lights the house ablaze. Thankfully, the opponent is not home, and the police and firefighters respond quickly. The conservative is being arrested and put into the back of the police car just as his opponent turns up the driveway. The media circus turns their cameras to the car pulling up the lane, then back to the conservative who yells “see my opponent there, in that car, well he uses gas too " . The chyron on Fox now reads: " Hypocrite liberal gets whats coming to him” on CNN you have: “Gas controversy erupts in flames”

What I’m saying is, it doesn’t matter how outlandish the equivalency is, you can be guaranteed conservatives will make it, and that the media will bothsides it for them.

Edit: Yes I do a bit of self-cringe when I reread that story.