# Madison Cawthorn, controversial Republican Congressman from North Carolina, has lost the primary election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616 "2022-05-18T14:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/101 "2022-05-20T08:41:08Z")
Good, let the hate flow through you…make America **dark** again ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/102 "2022-05-20T09:08:44Z")
There was a very good lead editorial in yesterday’s _Failing New York Times_ on this guy. It expressed sympathy for the difficult time he has had growing up and hoped that getting defeated would allow him to become a better person. Politics is not where you want to be while you are sorting things out in your life. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/103 "2022-05-20T12:49:22Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > An end to “gentile politics as usual”? What, is he going to borrow the space lasers? I assume he misspelled “genteel”; a Freudian slip, or a dog whistle? The world may never know… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/104 "2022-05-20T12:50:01Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Good, let the hate flow through you…make America **dark** again No no, that’s the Great Replacement Theory, they’re against that ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/105 "2022-05-20T12:59:08Z")
[Goyim Squad / Secret Jewish Space Laser Corps Enamel Pin — Dissent Pins](https://dissentpins.com/collections/secret-jewish-space-laser/products/secret-jewish-space-laser-corps-goyim-squad-enamel-pin) perhaps he part of the squad? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/106 "2022-05-21T00:34:13Z")
Dark MAGA is, ironically, almost unimaginably white. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/107 "2022-05-21T00:37:28Z")
I don’t follow this shit super close, but that’s the first mention of Dark Maga I’ve ever seen. Did he make it up? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/108 "2022-05-21T00:46:26Z")
I thought Dark MAGA was a villain in a Marvel movie. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/109 "2022-05-21T00:53:54Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > > [@JRDelirious](#): > > > > An end to “gentile politics as usual”? What, is he going to borrow the space lasers? > > I assume he misspelled “genteel”; a Freudian slip, or a dog whistle? The world may never know… Or maybe “genital”, given the whole cocaine sex orgy thing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/110 "2022-05-21T00:54:46Z")
Dark Maga and Trump. Master and Apprentice. But which is which? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/111 "2022-05-21T01:16:30Z")
This is not even remotely related to the reason he lost the primary. Whether or not Saturn was rising had a bigger effect than neglecting his district. The GOP thought he spoke out of turn about their coke orgies so they knifed him by releasing all the opposition reporting they had on him. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/112 "2022-05-21T01:30:44Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > that’s the first mention of Dark Maga I’ve ever seen. Did he make it up? I believe that Dark MAGA is similar to the Dark Matter in the universe - nobody can find it, but Dark MAGA apparently accounts for the massive win that Trump allegedly had in the 2020 election. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/113 "2022-05-21T01:38:23Z")
I cannot for the life of me understand how the guy got elected in the first place; even by Republican standards he was unqualified. Did no one else in his district want the job? Cawthorn has even lied - quite lavishly - about the accident that paralyzed him. He’s not right in the head. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/114 "2022-05-21T02:32:38Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > This is not even remotely related to the reason he lost the primary. Whether or not Saturn was rising had a bigger effect than neglecting his district. > > The GOP thought he spoke out of turn about their coke orgies so they knifed him by releasing all the opposition reporting they had on him. That’s it. If shit-talking the GOP establishment was all it took to get “knifed” in your next primary, dozens of GOP house members and Senator Ted Cruz would be out on the streets looking for work. Cawthorn _was_ taken out by a storm of “establishment” campaign spending and opposition research, but he left himself vulnerable to it. The only reason why he had primary opposition to begin with was because he tried to run in another district, which caused other Republicans to file in NC 11. According to reporting, he had a reputation among his constituents – and most importantly among GOP county and precinct officials – as being difficult to reach and neglectful of their concerns. He only lost to Edwards by 1.5%. If he’d spent more time building relationship with his local party and constituents he could well have weathered the storm. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/115 "2022-05-21T02:40:46Z")
Sure, he could have shaken some hands and maybe gotten another percent or two. Or he could shut up and not get all the voters to see a video of him face fucking his cousin and gotten thirty. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/116 "2022-05-21T02:48:13Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > him face fucking his cousin “Not that there’s anything wrong with it.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/117 "2022-05-21T03:22:18Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > “Not that there’s anything wrong with it.” Well, except that it was his _cousin_, so we got some incest going there. You know that increases the risk of genetic defects in the children they might have. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/118 "2022-05-21T03:24:53Z")
Was there some breakthrough in face-fucking that I hadn’t heard about? I don’t think pregnancy was a risk. Also, it was a male cousin. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/119 "2022-05-21T04:12:53Z")
Gay face incest babies are the worst kind of face incest babies! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/120 "2022-05-21T10:26:18Z")
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