Tom Cotton: ‘Hold My Beer’ Spews GQP Version Of Civil War That Makes Haley’s Reasonable by Comparison

The culture war is fundamentally an information war. In any war, intelligence about who the enemy is, what the enemy is doing, is key. And in the culture war, the Republican party has made it clear that they can’t wage a war to win over the electorate based upon platform or principles. Not any longer. So how are they going to win? By reinventing reality. By revisionist history. By right-wing media ginning up fear and pushing untruth.

George Orwell said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” We are there, folks. Make no mistake about that. If Nikki Haley’s absurdist comments about the cause of the Civil War being some vague nonsense about “freedoms” and “what people could and couldn’t do” were a joke, wait until you see what Tom Cotton has to offer.

Tom Cotton knows that. He's just lying, knowing his MAGA followers will believe anything he says.

— The New York Independent (@nyi_news) December 28, 2023

What we saw in 2016 was the beginning of the Republican party courting ignorant, uneducated people as a voting bloc. That was shocking then, now it’s simply the way that things are. This is sophistry, plain and simple, the presentation of fallacious arguments with the intent to deceive. Deception and lies are what the GOP is about these days.

Now, not to be naive, politicians have always lied a bit. It’s part of the DNA of politics. But never like this. This is the feral side of politics that you’re looking at. American politics might have been about cats and dogs before, but now it’s about the jungle.

It’s also a truism that voting is a visceral thing. And that’s okay when you have two candidates whose qualifications are somewhat equal. All that’s gone. The GOP isn’t seeking to put up good candidates, it’s seeking to put up candidates that look good and can spew MAGA talking points and recite the kind of revisionist drivel that Tom Cotton did here. This is the state of the Republican party, right here. This is what they have sunk to.

And here’s where the gaslighting is going, folks. Does this look like a Democrat to you?

Not. A. Democrat. pic.twitter.com/BFPkIAd7fY

— Cyndi Borowski💙🇺🇲 (@BorowskiCyndi) December 28, 2023

And so what is Cotton pushing now, that these are Democrats supporting Trump? I think my head will explode.

Which ones proudly fly the confederate flag still?? Should tell him quite a bit. pic.twitter.com/0hX3S5vcVr

— Farrah Oxford 💙💙💙 (@oxford_farrah) December 28, 2023

Nikki Haley stepped in it, bigly, but the smear is going all over the entire party. Let’s see if this affects her polling in New Hampshire, where she’s been riding so high. And I’m also wondering how the big money donors are taking this particular gaffe.

Not that it really matters. Rick Wilson predicted that Haley would be the golden girl for a while but then, at the end of the day, the checkbooks would come out and Trump’s name would be on the top line. And that probably is going to be the case.

It’s hard to predict where things are really going in the election because the presence of Trump on various state ballots is still an issue as is the possibility of criminal conviction for Trump. These will have determinative effects on this election.

But whichever way things go, the GQP is bouncing off the ropes and they’re going to spin, pivot, and lie, do whatever they can to survive. This is going to be some show. Tom Cotton has just given you a taste of it.