Tom Cotton's premise about which groups of Americans can be trusted with equal political representation, and which cannot, comes through perfectly clear. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP/Shutterstock Last month, President Trump dismissed statehood for the District of Columbia on the blunt grounds that giving political representation to its citizens would mean adding two more Democrats to the Senate. “You mean District of Columbia, a state?,” he scoffed. “Why? So we can have two more Democratic — Democrat senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen.
D.C. statehood, which would shrink the federal district to just the areas around Congress and the White House while making its residential spaces a state, would solve the first problem, and only slightly alleviate the second. Even giving Washington, D.C., statehood would still leave a Senate that gives far more weight to heavily white states:
The complete failure of this prediction has not embarrassed him, and his speech about Washington fearfully invokes the safety of the capitol as if he were talking about the Green Zone in Baghdad circa 2004. Cotton warns that the new federal district would rely on the Democrats’ new state for many basic utility, not just power but water, sewage, and telecommunications.
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