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It just doesn't really address the substance of the issue. It may well be true that the NYT has no financial choice but pander to the readers who consider non-controversial majority views to be fascist. That doesn't change the problematic effects of such viewpoint narrowing.

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Tom Cotton’s views were in no way non-controversial or of the majority.

The op-ed cites the statistic:

> According to a recent poll, 58 percent of registered voters, including nearly half of Democrats and 37 percent of African-Americans, would support cities' calling in the military to "address protests and demonstrations" that are in "response to the death of George Floyd."

As evidence that the view espoused in Cotton's op-ed are the majority's view. Do you have a source saying that that is false?

They hardly indicate he's a fascist.

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