Is it just me, or has he been saying more violent, nutjob comments in the past 2 or 3 years (compared to his past)?
To be fair, Cotton has always been like this. He was the guy saying the US had an "under incarceration problem" when Trump was promoting the First Step Act in 2018.
And he was right, wasn't he? Haven't crime rates risen as incarceration fell? The narrative that Michelle Alexander etc presented in 2016 -- "The New Jim Crow" -- has clearly been disastrous for America.
COVID was a temporary blip, violent crime crashed down last year, and is declining even faster this year.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statisticsI get that you only like spending money if it leads to war, brutality, or imprisonment, never to actually help people, but damn, at least try to get the facts right. Maybe one day God will show you a halfway decent, less monstrous path.
