Sen. Tom Cotton, a far-out, right-winger, is to good public policy what a boll weevil is to a good cotton crop: totally destructive.

But he is politically candid – rather than disguising his racial bigotry, for example, Tom flaunts it, as he did last month in an open letter to the retail giant, Target. While the senator is usually a devoted corporate-hugging Republican, he lashed out at Target for business policies that he furiously condemns as racially discriminatory… against white people!

What popped Tom’s cork was the chain’s pledge to increase the number of Black people it hires by 20 percent. Holy Dixieland, wailed Cotton, hiring more of them means fewer jobs for us white people! He insisted that Caucasians have the right to take any and all of Target’s jobs.

Interestingly, Target’s gesture to racial equality was made three years ago, with no peep or protest from the now-infuriated Cotton. What changed? The GOP’s dog-whistling tune. The new politically correct line of anti-Black racists (even parroted by today’s Republican Supreme Court) is that all efforts to provide racial fairness and balance are – get this – illegal racism against the white majority!

So Cotton is just scurrying aboard his party’s latest anti-black bandwagon, proclaiming that whites must be protected from racial progress. Not only are Tom and his ilk threatening teachers, librarians, and local governments for promoting equality, but also brand name corporations that they claim to be “woke” – that is, not solely focused on profits, but also promoting a little attention to America’s need for social justice.

Ironically, Tom’s clique piously claims to be devout Christians. But guess who was supremely woke? Jesus! Tom Cotton needs to review the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus declared that those who hunger and thirst for justice are blessed.

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