Is he a junior?
Doesn’t look like it; Wikipedia says that his father’s name is Roger.
Some people just go by their middle names, even if they aren’t a “Junior.” What isn’t clear to me is whether he’s always gone by Madison, or if he adopted using his middle name when he entered politics.
Cawthorn could always monetize Substack, as many fellow loons have already done. Books and paid speeches offer other sources of income.
He could be a video party clown. Seems to be working for Rudy.
You would think but there seems to be an insatiable thirst for conservative pundits, the wackier the better. And while Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have hung around like leeches (apologies to Hirudinea and Cary Grant) most of them seem to have a pretty limited lifespan before they either grow some semblance of a conscience or burn out and fade away. Cawthorn can write a book, do a speaking tour where he gets protested or banned from college campuses where students reject openly fascist views, complain mightily to CPAC crowds about how he has been so, so wronged, and get a nice little gig making nonsense commentary for Fuchs News (if he can rein in the openly fascist worship a bit) or OANN (if he wants to go full-on Nazi cosplay). Dude has a good gig as long as he can just manage his pathological lying tendencies to only slander opponents. But he probably can’t, and sooner or later he’ll smear the wrong conservative pundit, and then be a neofascist has-been like so many Trumpist idolators before him.
Stranger
He didn’t just try to bring a gun on a plane, he tried to bring a LOADED gun on a plane. And he tried to bring a knife onto school properly (several times). And don’t forget the time he wore a shooting shirt with matching gloves to an insurrection! And that was all fine with his Republican colleagues. They were okay with him until he spilled the beans on the cocaine orgies. 
He’d have to develop a different schtick than the melting hair dye – he doesn’t need any.
He’s a bonafide prick with some charm.
He is kind of the original anti-Trump, fighting against the descent into the Dark Side:
If only Don Jr. or (ugh) Eric had the balls to stand up to their mouth-breathing father. I don’t know; maybe Bannon will pick up the lightsaber?
Strangert
My question is, would the same forces that lost him the primary also limit his speechifying opportunities to at least some extent? I’m not sure; I guess it depends on the venue and to what extent the inmates are running the asylum there.
That’s funny.
The hammer really went down on him in NC for failing to behave as expected of someone in his station, but he’ll have a home with the hardcore MAGAts and the conspiracy podcasters for a while.
See this recent thread for an adjacent discussion. It’s not precisely about why some folks go by their middle name, but it’s close enough:
He might as well burn any remaining bridges now and write the tell-all book, naming names on the cocaine orgy thingy.
That was a good Twitter thread. I was also struck by this that Cooper says later…
Seems like a stunningly stupid campaign strategy.
There are rumors going about that he didn’t want to win, so if that’s really true, it turned out to be effective.
I wonder what more perfect job he was giving it up for.
Media loudmouth, I’d guess.
Though if you are going to pull a Palin, you should just resign rather than get beat. Losing doesn’t help the brand, and I haven’t heard him yelling about fraud.
In my dark conspiracy-mongering moments, I wonder if someone from the party didn’t give him a call Tuesday as the votes were coming in to remind him that the wingnut welfare dole is only allocated to those who play ball, and point out that some as young and obviously talented as him shouldn’t through their future away on one fit of pique.
Because I was really expecting the allegations of voter fraud to come thick and fast when I heard the results.
If he does have anything to back up the cocaine orgies story, it’s bound to come out now.