![]() ![]() ![]() Ronna McDaniel, the head of the Republican National Committee, and a Trump supporter, has claimed not to know what it is. ![]() Cawthorn’s spokesperson, Luke Ball, declined to elaborate. According to the University of Maryland researcher Caroline Orr Bueno, Dark MAGA is a nascent agglomeration of trolls, gamers, white supremacists, and other right-wing figures, such as Greene and Jack Posobiec, who aim to rebrand Trumpism ahead of the 2024 Presidential race. It’s not at all clear what Cawthorn meant, when he threatened, after his loss, “to expose those who say and promise one thing yet legislate and work towards another, self-profiteering, globalist goal”-or whether Dark MAGA actually exists. Even before the race was called, a delighted critic dug up and retweeted Cawthorn’s mocking first post from the night of his 2020 election victory: “Cry more, lib.” He will face a Democrat from Asheville, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, in November. Edwards won the nomination by finishing first, with at least thirty per cent of the vote. (Over the past half century, more than nine in ten House incumbents have won reëlection.) In his race, sixty-eight per cent of voters chose one of the seven candidates not named Cawthorn. By another measure, the vote was a rare repudiation of a sitting member of Congress. In one sense, he lost narrowly, finishing second to Edwards by about thirteen hundred votes, out of nearly ninety thousand cast. When it came time to vote, neither Trump’s backing, nor Cawthorn’s sallies into the culture wars-he’d introduced a bill, five days before the primary, to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to include “aborted children” in official death counts-were enough to save him. “He’s a genius,” Cawthorn said of the former President earlier this year. 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. Under the heading “America First Patriots,” he compiled a gallery of “honorable men and women,” some of whom took his side. 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. “It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. 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. A congratulatory tweet from his campaign account, 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.” 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. When North Carolina voters rejected Madison Cawthorn’s bid for a second term in Congress last week, he seemed to go quietly. ![]()
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