Heterodox
Backgrounder on Tom Cotton. According to Molly Ball of The Atlantic, Cotton's Harvard thesis reveals his philosophy: Cotton insists that the Founders were wise not to put too much faith in democracy, because people are inherently selfish, narrow-minded, and impulsive. He defends the idea that the country must be led by a class of intellectually superior officeholders whose ambition sets them above other men. Though Cotton acknowledges that this might seem elitist, he derides the...
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