Calling for government help when things get real, while loudly and publicly stating the government is useless and should be disbanded / retired when times are good is a bad look.

Asking someone to stick to their principles or accept they were wrong earlier may not be very kind in this case, but expecting someone to die by the sword they lived by hardly sounds wrong.

I'll agree this shouldn't happen in a civil society, but I also wish people were smart enough to recognize that government and rule of law are a prerequisite for civil society.