Ian Langsdon/AP The success of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump surely has nothing to do with their last name. Nope.

Republicans ― the party that elected a president who built his real estate empire thanks to his father’s help, allowed his children to run his company and gave his daughter and son-in-law top White House jobs ― are appalled by the nepotism going on in the Democratic Party, particularly in the Biden family.

Taking their cues from President Donald Trump, Republicans have been hammering presidential candidate Joe Biden for his son’s business dealings in Ukraine and China.

Trump has pushed the conspiracy theory that as vice president, Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the country’s chief prosecutor to prevent him from investigating a Ukrainian gas company with ties to Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden recently announced that he will resign from the board of a Chinese company by the end of the month amid the political maelstrom. He has insisted he never did anything illegal or improper, although he said in an interview with ABC that he probably showed “poor judgment” in joining the ventures.

While Trump’s allegations about the Bidens are entirely baseless, Hunter Biden did seem to be taking advantage of his famous name to score lucrative positions with foreign companies. (There’s no indication he had any expertise in the Ukrainian energy industry otherwise.)

Many people sincerely believe that there should be less nepotism in politics and it should be easier for people without connections to get jobs in government and elsewhere.

But some of the people criticizing Hunter Biden and acting shocked about what happened have benefited from the same system.

Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, went after Hunter Biden on Tuesday.