Tom Cotton presented Andrew Jackson as the hero Reagan and Trump had in common, then went way too far in praising Jackson's violent racism, writes ed_kilgore
Old Hickory’s latest disciple. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Senator Tom Cotton may be best known for calling for the deployment of the U.S. Armed Forces to stamp out protests for racial justice in the summer of 2020.
But Cotton mostly wanted to deploy Jackson as a partisan weapon against the Democrats who have abandoned him. He said: He was the only Arkansas Republican to vote twice against the farm bill and five times against disaster-aid funding—two initiatives that national conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation see as symptoms of big government, but that many rural Southerners rely on heavily. Cotton also was the only Arkansan to vote for a budget drafted by the Republican Study Committee that would slash spending, voucherize Medicare, and raise the eligibility age for Social Security to 70.
The differences between Calhoun and Jackson, a slaveholder, actually had nothing to do with their common devotion to the Peculiar Institution. But Cotton truly passed the gates of delirium when he touted Jackson as a crime-fighter:
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