Tom Cotton, slavery apologist
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According to GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Tom Cotton, American slavery had some good and bad points. On the one hand, it was radically evil:
On the other, it was the kind of radical evil that was extremely profitable.
You can see why Cotton — the name seems just a bit too on the nose under the circumstances — feel very conflicted about the whole subject
This is the kind of thing that would have been considered completely outrageous if George Wallace had spewed it way back in 1968, but here we are.
It’s a shame James Bennet could only be fired once for printing this guy’s love letter to Trumpian fascism.