By allowing Donald Trump to set the standard for what it is willing to tolerate, the GOP has opened the door to Madison Cawthorn and his falsehoods. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Madison Cawthorn is in for a stern talking-to, Politico reported on Tuesday. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will meet with the 26-year-old Republican congressman presumably to explain why it’s unwise to accuse colleagues of cocaine binges and orgies — as Cawthorn recently did.
While he didn’t name any names, Cawthorn still managed to agitate fellow Republicans. “During a closed-door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday,” Politico reported, “multiple Republicans in the room said lawmakers stood up to air their anger and frustration over Cawthorn portraying his own colleagues as bacchanalian and sexual deviants,” thus prompting McCarthy’s meeting with Cawthorn.
While it’s not difficult to believe that Washington, D.C., is a nest of villainy, its crimes trend more toward total impunity for war criminals and the like and less toward sexual deviancy. In addition, Cawthorn is known for stretching the truth. During his successful House campaign, he repeatedly left voters with the impression that he had been bound for the U.S.
So it’s difficult to believe that Cawthorn is now telling the truth about the unsavory habits of his fellow Republicans. Much like his idol, Donald Trump, Cawthorn’s public falsehoods are key to his political identity. That creates a quandary for Republicans who may be annoyed by Cawthorn and his fabulism. Cawthorn is a liar, but so is Trump. He’s an extremist, but so is Trump.
McCarthy’s lecture is meaningless to a politician like Cawthorn, who has fashioned himself in Trump’s careless image. The freshman representative has no legislative accomplishments to tout nor does he seem particularly interested in amassing any. His record is hot air, and that’s the way he seems to like it. Whatever McCarthy says, then, might not leave much of an impact.
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