Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, has called himself a "big history buff" and a "lover of history."
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11) is a dumbass Trumpster. Okay, using dumbass and Trumpster together is sort of a redundancy. Heās famous for being part of the Sedition Caucus and is frequently associated with loonies like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO-03).
Academically, he dropped out of Patrick Henry College in the middle of his second semester after getting mostly Dās. And heās notorious for doing notably idiotic things like taking selfies in front of Hitlerās vacation home.
Lately heās attracted attention for making big historical mistakes.
He attributed John Adamsās most famous quotation to Thomas Jefferson.
He didnāt understand that the Emancipation Proclamation was essentially an executive order issued in a military context by President Lincoln rather than a law passed by Congress.
He didnāt know that his namesake, James Madison, didnāt sign the Declaration of Independence.
He got George Washingtonās and Abraham Lincolnās ages wrong for when they got their first military commissions.
Certainly nobody is perfect. But when you are a US Representative who calls himself a ābig history buffā people are going to expect more from you than from some drunken loudmouth at a bar.Ā













