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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Madison Cawthorn [1]

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Date: 2022-07-26

U.S. House Rep. Madison Cawthorn, from NC-11, who will be out of office come January. Good riddance to white nationalist trash.

Welcome to what is the 1123rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Madison Cawthorn, the sitting U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, first elected in the 2020 elections based on having been the protegee of former Congressman Mark Meadows, who’s currently trying to avoid jail time on seditious conspiracy charges while serving as the final Trump White House Chief of Staff. Cawthorn'is brief time in the spotlight was a cavalcade of terrifying authoritarianism only dwarfed by his incredible talent for self-owns.

Let’s begin with what we knew about this doofus before he got elected to office.

Alright, so leading off, there’s the mystery of the accident that left an 18 year old Cawthorn paralyzed, when his friend fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his BMW while Cawthorn with his feet up on the dashboard at the time. Cawthorn’s told a version of events where his friend “left him to die in a fiery tomb”, but the story seems to be that after crashing and paralyzing Cawthorn, his friend pulled him from the vehicle. When a disputed account emerged, Cawthorn’s version of how he was paralyzed just kept changing, including that he was “dead at the scene”, or that he “has no memory” of what happened. While Cawthorn claimed the accident was the cause of him being denied a chance to serve in the Naval Academy, it had already rejected him as a candidate before he was paralyzed.

Cawthorn then attended Patrick Henry College, studying political science, and managed a “D” average, and while he attributed his difficulties to still recovering to the accident, women on campus seemed to think there was a bigger issue that he managed to sexually harass a score of them in his brief time at the school, and the ladies were openly warning each other to not accept rides from him, as he would keep them locked in the vehicle with them and start asking inappropriate questions and groping them.

A reputation for being a sex pest and pathological liar was exactly what Mark Meadows liked about young Madison (and remember, Meadows had other aides that were sexually harassing colleagues), and he welcomed him into his office as a Congressional intern. During which time in 2017, Madison Cawthorn took a vacation to Europe, and decided on taking a nice little tourist stop at the Eagle’s Nest, which is, y’know, the castle where Adolf Hitler hid out through a lot of World War II. In an Instagram post from there, Cawthorn referred to Hitler by the honorific “The Fuhrer” and described the stop on his vacation as something “on his bucket list”, which was pretty concerning, frankly.

Meadows made Cawthorn his heir apparent when he marched off to work in the Trump White House to work on the coup attempt, and helped Cawthorn advance out of the GOP Primary by squeaking into a runoff with Lynda Bennett, and then pushed Cawthorn past her by labelling Bennett a “Never Trumper”. While the press started reporting on all of the above things that were a strong hint as to why Cawthorn should not be elected to Congress, he responded to the criticism by starting a website dedicated to attacking a journalist and claiming that he was working with Democratic Senator Corey Booker to “ruin white males running for office”, which didn’t make his swearing up and down that he wasn’t a Neo-Nazi or white nationalist sound any better.

And then, once in office, he amassed a voting record like this:

Now, while that voting record is appalling, that was not what brought about Cawthorn’s undoing. It’s the dumb ass things he would say out loud that seemed to eventually be too much for him to survive at the voting booth.



There was a question of if he would even be able to run again because of his participation in the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6th, and that had some of his constituents file a legal challenge to him being able to run for office in North Carolina because he “took part in an insurrection”, which would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, written to keep the Confederates out of political office after the Civil War. During the attack, he opined that the domestic terrorists storming the Capitol Building “have some fight”, He also followed up on his vote to not certify the results after the Capitol Attack by accusing those Republicans who didn’t fall into line with Trump’s coup attempt as being “spineless cowards”. Also, considering he was fundraising on spreading conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud to his supporters, that isn’t a big reach.



So… yeah, this dips*** was really into sedition, and kept gaslighting the American people, claiming that a “Democratic machine” of “agitators strategically placed” inside the crowd were the ones that drove the mob to attack. He was still raving about election fraud as late as August of 2021, showing no remorse, and claiming there would be further “bloodshed” and that he would “pick up arms against a fellow American” if changes were not made to our elections (that statistically have no significant voter fraud).



By October of 2021, Cawthorn was truly going full-on toxic white nationalist, begging American mothers to raise “monsters” that would not be “de-masculated”. Y’know, normal rhetoric. But what do you expect from a guy so committed to his own toxic masculinity that he pulls his wheelchair up to trees and starts punching them to prove what a really big, big man he really is?



When Russia, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, furthered their war in Ukraine in early 2022, Cawthorn yet again showed his love for an authoritarian dictator (Hitler, Trump, and now Putin), calling Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskyy a “thug”, and bemoaning that the Ukrainian government was too “woke” and promoting liberal ideologies.



Cawthorn apparently thought laws shouldn’t apply to him and tried to improve his bonafides with gun enthusiasts by twice during his Congressional career, getting caught on two separate occasions trying to sneak a gun onto an airplane. As one does.



But then, with folks on the left disgusted with Madison Cawthorn, conservatives began to realize what a deranged little dips*** they had in their ranks. The first moment probably being when Cawthorn, unprompted in an interview, began to talk about “sexual perversion” in Washingtoin, DC, mentioning Republican colleagues i having invited him to orgies, and that one colleague asked him if he wanted to do “key bumps of cocaine” with him. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Whip Steve Scalise came with a ruler to rap him across the knuckles, hoping this would be the end of him embarrassing the party. Some members, like North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, threw him under the bus by pointing out he had violated the STOCK Act and committed insider trading by working with a company to create “Let’s Go Brandon” themed bitcoin.



But oh, the worst was yet to come.



In late April of 2022, photos surfaced of a drunken Cawthorn in his wheelchair on a cruise wearing women’s lingerie over his clothes. For someone who thumps his chest about being “de-masculated”, this was perhaps not a good look.



But the real straw that broke the camel’s back… In May 2022… right before the GOP Primary, a video emerged of a younger Madison Cawthorn “wrestling” with his cousin, Stephen Smith, and thrusting his exposed penis into his cousin’s face. Which, that might explain why Cawthorn for some reason had funnelled $141,000 of taxypayer money and campaign cash towards Smith, where the real “work” he was doing for Cawthorn was “don’t tell anybody I was trying to use you as a c*** coaster”. There’s already the old saying in conservative politics to “never get caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy”, and Cawthorn broke that rule… plus, there’s the incestuous angle to boot.



After all that publicity, Madison Cawthorn was defeated in the 2022 GOP Primary for his seat by Chuck Edwards by about 1300 votes. We don’t think he’s got much of a future in conservative politics, given all those embarrassing photos and video, and he’ll need a couple years of time for people to forget the image of him thrusting his junk in his own cousin’s face.

One Year Ago, July 26th, 2021: Sammy Gindi (NJ)

Two Years Ago, July 26th, 2020: Mark Walker (NC)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, July 26th, 2019: Mark Walker (NC)… 2019 Update

Four Years Ago, July 26th, 2018: Mark Walker (NC)… 2018 Update

Five Years Ago, July 26th, 2017: Mark Walker (NC)… 2017 Update

Six Years Ago, July 26th, 2016: Mark Walker (NC)… Original Profile

Seven Years Ago, July 26th, 2015: Allen West (FL)… 2015 Update

Eight Years Ago, July 26th, 2014: Allen West (FL)… Original Profile

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