Axios: “Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) defended the use of federal law enforcement officers in Portland and compared violent protesters in the city to the ‘anarchists and insurrectionists’ who seceded from the Union in the prelude to the Civil War.”
“‘These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the Union in 1861 in South Carolina and tried to take over Fort Sumter,’ Cotton said on Fox News Tuesday.”