The New Yorker:

The twenty-six-year-old congressman lost his primary after a series of self-inflicted calamities. Will “Dark MAGA” offer a path forward?

By Peter Slevin 

When North Carolina voters rejected Madison Cawthorn’s bid for a second term in Congress last week, he seemed to go quietly. As the results rolled in, Cawthorn left his Election Night celebration in Hendersonville, and let aides announce that he had conceded the Republican primary to a locally known state senator named Chuck Edwards. A congratulatory tweet from his campaign account, @CawthornforNC, was as generous as it was uncharacteristic: “It’s time for the NC-11 GOP to rally behind the Republican ticket to defeat the Democrats’ nominee this November.”

That was then. A few days after his defeat, he posted a screed more typically his style, lumping Republicans and Democrats into an ominous “Uni-party” that had taken him down. “It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party,” Cawthorn wrote, on Instagram. Under the heading “America First Patriots,” he compiled a gallery of “honorable men and women,” some of whom took his side. They included Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, and also Tucker Carlson, Mike Cernovich, “the great Charlie Kirk,” the N.R.A., and, of course, Donald Trump, who’d endorsed Cawthorn. “He’s a genius,” Cawthorn said of the former President earlier this year. “Trump is like a father to me.”

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