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. He’s 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 D’s. And he’s notorious for doing notably idiotic things like taking selfies in front of Hitler’s vacation home.
Lately he’s attracted attention for making big historical mistakes.
He attributed John Adams’s most famous quotation to Thomas Jefferson.
He didn’t 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 didn’t know that his namesake, James Madison, didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence.
He got George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s 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 “big history buff” people are going to expect more from you than from some drunken loudmouth at a bar.
