Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has drawn a great deal of criticism for an April 15 tweet in which he promoted violence against protesters who are opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military policies in Gaza. On X, formerly Twitter, the GOP senator posted, “I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense.” But he later replaced “take matters into your own hands” with the longer “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.” Liberal opinion writer Paul Waldman…