Well, Madison Cawthorn is an interesting young Congressman. He’s disabled, telegenic, and deeply populist. So much so that he may have been involved in the planning of the January 6th riot.
If so, he may run afoul of the insurrectionist clause in the 14th Amendment. Now, January 6th was no insurrection. It was a riot. But a court or state election authority could decide otherwise and disqualify his candidacy for Congress.
To distract from that kerfuffle he has come up with a very populist and socially conservative version of the 1994 Contract with America. Gingrich was successful then because he took a big tent ideas approach to his Contract. Cawthorn has built himself a pup tent.
JUST IN: Madison Cawthorn just appeared on Tucker Carlson and warned Fox viewers that some of his constituents “are actually very close” to disqualifying him from holding office for violating the insurrectionist clause of the 14th Amendment.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) February 22, 2022
FNC: “Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., unveiled a new Republican Party platform designed after former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s ‘Contract with America’ that he hopes conservatives around the country will pledge to enact should the GOP retake Congress in the midterm elections.
The New Contract for America reads like a conservative wish list, including slashing federal funds, replacing the income tax, abolishing the Department of Education and stating that life begins at conception and therefore affording legal protections to fertilized eggs and fetuses.
But in a big departure from the 1994 original, this New Contract with America is authored by the youngest member of Congress, and he’s rolling it out without explicit support from leadership. In a sign of how campaigning has changed, Cawthorn wants to collect endorsements from the public, which he hopes will then compel members of Congress to sign on.”
“I think this is a definitive roadmap … for my generation to reclaim our country,” Cawthorn told press on Tuesday. “I believe that this is the plan the American people can really coalesce around because this is one that puts people first.
“[Gingrich] really had to rely on convincing 218 members of Congress to do this, whereas we found a lot of success in just being able to go directly to the people through social media and all the other means we have available now,” Cawthorn said. “I personally find it easier to convince 30 million Americans rather than 218 members of the Congress to back this piece of legislation, and then use those 30 million Americans to then leverage their own representatives in these primaries.
“I think the Green New Deal is much less of a climate plan and much more of a Communist manifesto,” Cawthorn told media. “So this is really a retort to that.
“You look at every primary in the country right now, everyone’s running on the idea of ‘America First,'” Cawthorn said, “but so few people can actually give that a definition. And so I wanted to give an actual definition of a way that my generation, if we enact these policies, can reclaim our country.”
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Madison understands “timing.” In politics and ironically in humor, timing is absolute and essential. Cawthorn is surfing a very discernable wave rising out of Middle America and blowing outward toward both coasts. Conservative and independent voter sentiments have tightened up around the values that have always sustained the U.S. in divisive times. Cawthorn knows this and is using the Populist engine to start racking up miles of support for a return to the America so many remember before the invasion of Clintonism. Godspeed, Brother Mad.
You can tell the Commucrats are getting nervous and grasping at straws when they have to accuse someone of a supposed “crime” without any evidence. Madison Cawthorn has really put the fear of God into the crooked, fraud perpetrators, evil Commucrats. Keep them on edge as they have great difficulty dealing with truth.
GO REPRESENTATIVE CAWTHORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!