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US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Hawley, by contrast, is a veteran of the War on Christmas. He is constantly on alert for any offense to America’s Christian majority from the “managerial front row of American society, the class of the faculty lounge and the C-suite,” as he described it in July speech on the Senate floor, possibly forgetting that he is the product of Stanford and Yale and fancy law firms, and that he was an actual professor at the University of Missouri Law School.Many Republican senators reacted negatively to the summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, but Hawley and Cotton went above and beyond,&nbsp;fully embracing the white identity politics at the core of Trumpism.&nbsp;They spent last fall and winter praising pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and sharply criticizing the heavy-handed police response. Hawley even traveled there last October to literally stand in solidarity with the protesters fighting to save the island’s democracy from the Chinese Communist Party.“They have used violent tactics to put down the protests ― tear gas and beatings and dye blasted at protesters,” Hawley said in a Senate floor speech after the trip. “I just have to say, having been there myself, having been to the streets, having seen the protesters, having met with them and talked with them, their courage and their bravery under pressure is really something to behold.”Cotton also spoke out: “It would be a grave mistake of historic proportion ― surpassing the massacre of Tiananmen Square ― if Beijing were to impose martial law, occupy, or otherwise crack down on Hong Kong.”But in May, after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd and sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter marches, Hawley the as “increasingly violent riots and attacks and looting.” Black Lives Matter, perhaps the largest protest movement in U.S. history, decried not just police misconduct but also the systemic racism that pervades every aspect of Black life in America.In many cities, police responded brutally, tear-gassing protesters and firing rubber bullets into crowds, creating a seemingly . Not only did Republican senators not care, when some jurisdictions decided to allow the protests instead of using escalatory suppression tactics, Hawley complained they oppressed Christians because of continued pandemic restrictions on large gatherings.“State officials have violated the free speech and free exercise rights of religious Americans by treating religious gatherings and speech differently than the speech and mass gatherings of protests,” Hawley said in a June letter asking the Justice Department for a civil rights investigation.He also spoke out against the military renaming bases that currently honor Confederate generals ― an initiative that gained steam because of the protests but that Hawley derided as “woke cancel culture … steamrolling our history.”Cotton called for the federal government to suppress the protests as violently as possible.“One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers,” he wrote in an infamous New York Times op-ed in June.Trump, for his part, used federal law enforcement to gas and beat protesters near the White House so he could stage a photo shoot holding a Bible in front of a church: an overwhelming show of force and a tribute to oppressed Christians, all at once.,On Election Day, as the results trickled in and exit polls suggested Trump had made progress with minority voters and that he might even win the election, Hawley celebrated.&nbsp;“We are a working class party now,” he . “That’s the future.”Calling all HuffPost superfans!Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterLIVE ELECTION RESULTSGet all the latest election results from across the country, with up-to-the-minute maps and more.Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost?Today is National Voter Registration Day!We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Hawley, by contrast, is a veteran of the War on Christmas. He is constantly on alert for any offense to America’s Christian majority from the “managerial front row of American society, the class of the faculty lounge and the C-suite,” as he described it in July speech on the Senate floor, possibly forgetting that he is the product of Stanford and Yale and fancy law firms, and that he was an actual...

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