{"id":580048,"date":"2021-07-02T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580048"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:20:18","slug":"exclusive-the-left-started-the-culture-wars-tom-cotton-says-and-normal-americans-expect-us-to-stand-up-and-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-the-left-started-the-culture-wars-tom-cotton-says-and-normal-americans-expect-us-to-stand-up-and-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Left Started The Culture Wars, Tom Cotton Says, And \u2018Normal Americans Expect Us To Stand Up And Fight Back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-the-left-started-the-culture-wars-tom-cotton-says-and-normal-americans-expect-us-to-stand-up-and-fight-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-1-e1625243229191.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SIOUX CENTER, Iowa \u2014 The GOP didn\u2019t start the culture wars, Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton told the Daily Caller News Foundation, but they owe it to \u201cnormal Americans\u201d to \u201cstand up\u201d and \u201cfight back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe liberals have been waging a culture war on normal Americans for a very long time now, and it\u2019s well past time now for all Republicans to join it, fight it and win it,\u201d Cotton told the DCNF\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan during a Tuesday interview in Sioux Center, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/gop-republican-study-committee-culture-war-critical-race-theory\/\">sent an internal memo June 24<\/a> urging his colleagues to fight back against the ideology of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the \u201cracial essentialism\u201d that it teaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the good news,\u201d Banks told Republicans. \u201cWe are winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy encouragement to you is&nbsp;<em>lean into it<\/em>,\u201d Banks added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/gop-republican-study-committee-culture-war-critical-race-theory\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Lean Into The Culture War\u2019: Republican Study Committee Tells GOP Fighting Critical Race Theory Is A Winning Message)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cotton emphasized that though Republicans did not start the culture wars, noting that even during former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, Democrats were \u201cpersecuting Catholic nuns, trying to force them to pay for birth control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cotton said \u201c15-20 years before that, no Democrat would have supported something like that, but the party\u2019s become so radical on some of these issues that they are far beyond asking for toleration for different ways of life, different viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Democrats don\u2019t just want acceptance on political and religious matters, Cotton said, they \u201cwant to enforce celebration\u201d and \u201cuse the punitive power of the law and of the federal government to enforce their far-left worldview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s not even popular, not even with their own voters, certainly not with independents and Republicans,\u201d the Arkansas senator said. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that Republicans realize normal Americans expect us to stand up and fight back, oftentimes in the name of common sense.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/nbc-critical-race-theory-loudoun-county\/\">(RELATED: A Parent-Led Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Is Storming School Boards Across The Country)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cotton mentioned several areas where conservatives should push back against progressive agendas on common sense grounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOf course, you should not have boys competing in girls\u2019 sports, how is it fair to those girls,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, we should not teach our children the lie that America is fundamentally flawed or systematically racist, that you should be ashamed to live in America. We should teach them to be proud to live in the freest and greatest country in our history. We should teach them times we\u2019ve failed to live up to our high ideals, but also teach them all the times we\u2019ve made progress towards those ideals as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These are basic concepts, Cotton said, but liberal elites in Washington caught in their own bubble \u201csimply don\u2019t see this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Senator Tom Cotton Thinks Republicans Should Lean Into The Culture War\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1Vl-eLcWr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX CENTER, Iowa \u2014 The GOP didn\u2019t start the culture wars, Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton told the Daily Caller News Foundation, but they owe it to \u201cnormal Americans\u201d to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313929,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-1-e1625243229191.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: The Left Started The Culture Wars, Tom Cotton Says, And \u2018Normal Americans Expect Us To Stand Up And Fight Back\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-1-e1625243229191.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: The Left Started The Culture Wars, Tom Cotton Says, And \u2018Normal Americans Expect Us To Stand Up And Fight Back\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}