Commentary: Why Madison Cawthorn triggers Republicans – By Amanda Marcotte (Salon) / April 29, 2022
The Madison Cawthorn scandal exposes how the GOP depends on right-wing media to delude their base
In a world where so much news is just plain depressing, it’s an unexpected delight to watch the Republican establishment pull out their bag of dirty tricks and ratf**k one of their own. And boy, it couldn’t be happening to a nicer guy: Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, part of the freshman class of Republicans who work more as full-time trolls than traditional lawmakers. Man, Republicans really hate this guy.
In just the past week, the efforts to destroy Cawthorn have included GOP-funded attack ads against him, a push to have his alleged financial crimes exposed, and, what’s most fun of all, an “oppo dump” of embarrassing photographs. First, Politico published photos of Cawthorn at a party, drinking and wearing lingerie.
JUST IN: New photos obtained by @politico appear to show Madison Cawthorn wearing women’s lingerie. Cawthorn recently accused fellow Republicans of attending cocaine orgies. pic.twitter.com/YNKB0qyivd
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 22, 2022
When he blew that off, another bit of blackmail was leaked to the Daily Mail, this time a video of one of Cawthorn’s male staffers patting him near the crotch.
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