{"id":51117,"date":"2022-04-07T02:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51117"},"modified":"2022-04-07T02:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T02:11:31","slug":"tom-cotton-demagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51117","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cotton: demagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Tom Cotton this week did the seemingly impossible. He spoke in terms that would embarrass even the most shameful demagogues.<\/p>\n<p>The Arkansas Republican U.S. senator actually said out loud in a Senate floor speech that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson \u2014 a former public defender who is about to be confirmed to a seat on the Supreme Court \u2014 would rise to the defense of Nazi war criminals and would want them released rather than being held accountable for their crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! I am not sure how to respond to that bit of character assassination other than to say that Tom Cotton has provided a shameful example of the depths to which he and other demagogues will stoop to score cheap political points with the far-right-wing base of a once-great political party.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Cotton\u2019s behavior during the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s confirmation hearing of Judge Jackson\u2019s nomination was loathsome enough. Silly me. He outdid himself by offering that despicable example of demagoguery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cotton this week did the seemingly impossible. He spoke in terms that would embarrass even the most shameful demagogues. The Arkansas Republican U.S. senator actually said out loud in a Senate floor speech that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson \u2014 a former public defender who is about to be confirmed to a seat on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Cotton: demagogue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6120,1941,9889,6363,4841,9903],"class_list":["post-51117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-demagoguery","tag-gop","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus","tag-tom-cotton","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51118,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51117\/revisions\/51118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}