Sen. Tom Cotton compares largely peaceful anti-racism protesters in Portland to the Confederate Army

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas on Monday compared anti-racism demonstrators in Portland to the Confederacy as he defended the controversial presence of federal agents in the Oregon city.

During a conversation with Reihan Salam, the president of the conservative Manhattan Institute, Cotton was asked whether the presence of undercover Homeland Security agents in Portland is a violation of state's rights.

Cotton rejected the notion it violates Oregon's rights as a state, adding, "It's no more a violation of the prerogatives of Oregon as a state than trying to defend Fort Sumter was from insurrectionists in 1861."

The first military engagement in the American Civil War took place at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Confederacy fired the first shots after federal troops refused to surrender the fort, sparking the bloodiest conflict in US history. In short, Cotton essentially just equated anti-racism protesters to the racist, traitorous army that catalyzed the Civil War.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-sen-tom-cotton-compares-222151262.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. What a stupid fucking correlation.

[BGBD]

2. so....

he wants to build statues of them?

[TomSlick]

3. Our boy Tom ain't as stupid as he seeks to appear.

However, he believes that Trumpers in Arkansas and the rest of the country are that stupid.

[oasis]

4. No Tom, we will win in a righteous cause. There's a big difference.

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Confederate/traitors lost a completely morally bankrupt campaign.

[Budi]

5. Tom Cotton is on the Lincoln Project's target list

Thank you LP.

It will take a unified effort to save ourselves.

[Hekate]

12. Thank gods for that. I hope they prevail.

[lame54]

6. They couldn't hold a mint julep to those moms

[Rstrstx]

7. So you're saying he's pro-protestors?

Never would have figured

[demtenjeep]

8. he is a fucking asshole

dumbass

[marmar]

9. Senator Huckleberry should observe that "better to be silent and thought of as a fool" logic....

[struggle4progress]

10. Tom, like his President, has never been a man who thought carefully about anything

[liberaltrucker]

11. Tom, the Federal forces were defending a fixed position

Not invading Charleston. Completely different.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. What's sad is he's an Army veteran

He knows better but I believe he thinks the choir he's preaching to doesn't.

[liberaltrucker]

14. Yep

nt

[jacksonian]

15. this dumbass

NO, Ft. Sumpter was the STATE of South Carolina trying to break up the country as traitors. In the name of racism.

Portland is the state of Oregon saying "don't do this to us, we deserve to be treated like citizens".

Mr. Cotton doesn't seem to understand the difference. Surprised?