Opinions of Tom Cotton

[peterthlee]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotton
Personal opinion:
Ultra-massive HP for intruding Chinese authority on Hong Kong:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3469 (too nationalistic and extreme, if I say in this way)

Sticking to Trumpism quite tightly (maybe due to his state's political landscape) but still somewhat adhering to conservative principles. However, Trumpism is masking his political principles recently. On balance, lean HP.

Update on 19 Feb 2017: move my opinion to strong HP. See my reply on the second page.

[peterthlee]

Move to strong HP as he proposed a bill which could 'crack down' on legitimate immigrants.
(For those who successfully applied for US permanent residency, they have come across many hurdles, and the US immigration departments should have censored all people who have potential threats on national security).

By nature, it is stamping on basic human rights. On the other hand, he was a co-sponsor of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

I really laughed my ass off, seeing a nearly unprincipled human rights violator glorifying a bill which concerns human rights conditions outside the US. Meanwhile, another co-sponsor, Marco Rubio, still has the courage to utter the words 'it makes people uneasy' after the travel ban. From this, Rubio is at a higher tier. He sticked to what he said on 22 June 2016:

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I might be a bit harsh on Cotton. But what he's doing is really off track.

[peterthlee]

Genuinely evil.

Move to strong HP as he proposed a bill which could 'crack down' on legitimate immigrants.
(For those who successfully applied for US permanent residency, they have come across many hurdles, and the US immigration departments should have censored all people who have potential threats on national security).

By nature, it is stamping on basic human rights. On the other hand, he was a co-sponsor of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

I really laughed my ass off, seeing a nearly unprincipled human rights violator glorifying a bill which concerns human rights conditions outside the US. Meanwhile, another co-sponsor, Marco Rubio, still has the courage to utter the words 'it makes people uneasy' after the travel ban. From this, Rubio is at a higher tier. He sticked to what he said on 22 June 2016:

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I might be a bit harsh on Cotton. But what he's doing is really off track.

Traditionally, supporting something good (like human rights in Hong Kong) doesn't dock points from someone. Even if that someone is as vile as Cotton.

Nope, I’m just frustrated that why he’s promoting a crackdown on legal immigration (which will somehow violate the freedom of legal travelling) whilst advancing democracy causes in Hong Kong.
The bill could be rejected by Trump anyway, and will do very little or none to expedite Hong Kong’s democratic process. The real driving force is the collaboration of the government and local citizens. Unfortunately, the government and opposition are just establishing guerrilla against each other and have nothing done.
Anyway, despite being pan-Chinese nationalistic, I support universal suffrage in Hong Kong.

(Sorry for being off-topic)