Madison Cawthorn is the House MAGA frat boys’ pledge. He so wants to join that club as a full member so badly one can feel it listening to him. But then one runs up against another issue while listening to him, one that might keep him out of even that crowd. He is dumber than a ham.

He got mostly “D’s” in college, which he says is due to the car accident that put him in a wheelchair in 2017, coming back from a Spring Break trip, ironically. Perhaps that is true. But he also lies like K-Mart sheets, very poorly. He is the only person whose Wiki page reads like a divorce complaint, “Cawthorn says… but a judge later ruled that ducks do indeed have webbed feet.”

Cawthorn has wanted to be part of the “in” crowd, with guys like Gaetz, Jordan, Nunes, the cool guys that get all the girls. But mostly he’s lumped in with the women, Boebert and Marj, along with Gohmert, as people so inconceivably stupid it is stunning that they find their way to Washington and manage to put a finger on something to place a vote. Like the others, Cawthorn has said his share of outrageous and dangerous stuff, maybe it just sounds less dangerous coming from a pledge.

But his speech over the weekend was dangerous enough that he needs to be kicked out of Congress. We throw that phrase around a lot, evidently too much, because it almost sounds meaningless in writing it. Cawthorn is one of the very few (think Gohmert) that probably does believe that Trump got more votes than Biden and it’s a big scam. But it’s the part about taking up arms and bloodshed if elections continue to be “rigged” that cannot leave McCarthy a choice but to expel him from the Republican party and thus the House:

At a county GOP event, Rep. Madison Cawthorn lied that it's a lie Biden was "dutifully elected," said we know the election was "stolen"…then warned of "bloodshed," and suggested he might regretfully have to take up arms, if election systems "continue to be rigged" (they aren't): pic.twitter.com/3K9DoYh6Fe

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 30, 2021

Obviously, in this context, “rigged,” means any election that Trump believes should have gone the other way, whether it’s presidential or any other. Violence is becoming an increasingly “acceptable” position on the right. It cannot become normalized. He has to go.

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