Many Democrats have compared the president’s advocates to terrorists following the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, with retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal linking them to the jihadist group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
"That kind of rhetoric ... is obviously exaggerated and overheated and it needs to stop now," Cotton told host Tucker Carlson. "The Democrats are being very sore winners."
The senator said that Democrats are still being "angry and aggressive" toward Republicans because their own ideology isn’t all that popular with the American people.
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"Democrats and liberals ... control our media. They control business, increasingly. They control Big Tech. They control education," Cotton listed. "Politics and government is the one place where conservatives can have their voice heard.
"So what the Democrats want to do is use their narrow and probably fleeting majority to try to silence all opposition ... while also radically changing the rules of our democracy," he said.
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Those rule modifications, Cotton said, would include granting statehood to Washington D.C., eliminating the legislative filibuster, and nationalizing voting laws.
Meanwhile, the senator promised he will not stand for the suppression of his party and backed Trump supporters.
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"Seventy-four million Americans ought not to be slandered based on the action of a couple thousand who participated in a violent mob at the Capitol two weeks ago," he said. "What those people need ... are Republicans and conservatives in the Congress, in the state legislatures, to stand up for their rights. And I promise you I will do that."
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Republicans sought to guarantee the rights of Americans online, while Democrats asked tech companies to ramp up efforts against freedoms of expression.
Conservative senators like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Josh Hawley called out Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO's of Twitter and Facebook individually, for their platforms' affinity for banning, suppressing, and censoring Americans, and Republicans especially.
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While they held these sites to value for the power they wield over American discourse, their equivalents on the left supported more of it.
Sen. Diane Feinstein told Dorsey that "the entity that runs this operation ought to have an understanding that when there is a major situation that the tweets can play a unique role in reassuring or stirring people up to unacceptable levels."
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