Meyers Trashes NYT for Running Cotton's 'Chilling,' 'Fascist' Op-Ed

On Friday's edition of Late Night, host Seth Meyers trashed Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed in The New York Times calling for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and argued that the United States has become an authoritarian regime. Meyers described Cotton's op-ed as "chilling" and claimed "he lied repeatedly about the demonstrations." Speaking about Cotton and Republicans, Meyers declared "these guys want to tear up the Constitution so badly because they want to be ruled by a dictator so badly." According to Meyers, "nothing would make them happier than to throw a party celebrating the end of democracy and load a confetti cannon with scraps from the bill of rights." Meyers also trashed the Times for running the op-ed in the first place: "what are you guys doing? Our democracy is on a precipice and you decided to give it a push?" Meyers informed the Times, "you're not legally obligated to run fascist calls for military occupation in your newspaper."