Unfortunately I spent six months in the middle of 2020 hitting myself over the head with a hammer to soften my brain up for a career as a heterodox dissident, so the only source of information I have about what was happening then is the isolated text of Tom Cotton's op-ed
If only the piece had engaged more directly with the context and meaning of what Cotton wrote, in the light of when he wrote it
Because the National Guard was deployed as it often is in cases of unrest, there was no reason to object to Tom Cotton calling for the 101st Airborne to be deployed on U.S. soil and for those combat troops to give no quarter
There's like five different ways that clip is dumb but a big one is none of those are how a person would actually feel, you'd just feel confused or startled
Any time I've been at real risk of being run over the topmost thought is "Whahuh?"
Covering national politics for the Times is about trying to channel the imaginary thoughts and moods of the stupidest possible voter, all day and every day, until you have trained yourself to be even stupider than that