Notice how his eyes resemble a shark.
The dead eyes, the lack of personality, his lack of judgement when it comes to how others will view his actions, an utter lack of empathy for other human beings and an overweening ambition that developed early - all point to Tom Cotton as a man to be watched very carefully. Even though, at age 37, he's the youngest senator in Washington, Red State calls him "the most powerful man in Washington." An in depth, well researched article in the September, 2014 edition of The Atlantic traces Cotton from a childhood where he didn't speak until he was three years old and had a long lasting, severe speech impediment, through his college years and his thesis that sought to prove that only extremely ambitious males should rule, all the way to his nascent political career and important votes that reveal a troubling mind set. Cotton's college thesis reveals his scorn for average Americans.
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... he derides the Federalists’ modern critics as mushy-headed and naive.
“Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings,” Cotton wrote. “Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.” The Making of a Conservative Super Star
And, yet, his ambition to be part of that "dirty business" was clearly evident from early on to local king makers.
From the time he was a teenager, Cotton has been nurtured and groomed by conservative institutions—scholars, think tanks, media, and advocacy groups—to be the face of their political crusade.
It's not surprising that they seized on a young Tom Cotton. His is a brand of conservativism that is more heartless than most, a fanatical elitism that sees his views as uber superior in a way that few do (or would admit to).
His is a harsh, unyielding, judgmental political philosophy. “I don’t think Arkansas needs to bail out the Northeast,” Cotton said of his vote against the Hurricane Sandy relief bill.
He has dismissed the potential for default if the debt ceiling was not raised as a desirable “short-term market correction,” and said food stamps should be cut because too many recipients live high on the hog: “They have steak in their basket, and they have a brand-new iPhone, and they have a brand-new SUV.”
His views on women and numerous anti-woman votes seem to be summed up thusly:
... men are “simple” and women are “the problem” Women Are The Problem in Divorce
Oh, and that letter to Iran, written by this Senator with only 61 days on the job?
He received $700,000 for his senate campaign from the Emergency Committee for Israel. Frightening Facts About Tom Cotton
Rumors abound that the Republican powers-that-be are preparing to run him for the presidency in 2020.