Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“In 2020, Senator Tom Cotton sparked outrage with a New York Times guest essay calling for the use of the military to curb rioting and enforce order during the George Floyd protests. This past week, he called on everyday Americans to ‘take matters into your own hands’ in dealing with pro-Palestinian protestors like the ones who blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday. … his comments speak to a wider phenomenon on the American right, one where a kind of unreasonable, even anti-social, thinking has become commonplace but is presented as common sense and normal. It is a mode wherein the usual conservative appeals to common sense and self-evident facts remain rhetorically but are used to uphold a deeply disordered set of assumptions.” (04/22/24)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/for-tom-cotton-and-the-right-violence-and-cruelty-are-common-sense/