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In reply to the discussion: The Nazification of the Republican Party [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)39. Madison Cawthorn's visit to Hitler's vacation home alarms his NC district's Jews
In a 2017 social media post from the Eagles Nest in Bavaria, the now 25-year-old Republican congressional candidate said the former haunt of the Fuhrer was on his bucket list
By BEN SALES
14 August 2020, Times of Israel
JTA The Jewish mayor of Asheville, North Carolina, said it is very concerning that the Republican congressional candidate in her district visited Adolf Hitlers vacation home and referred to him as the Fuhrer.
The candidate, Madison Cawthorn, is running to represent western North Carolina in Congress. In a 2017 Instagram post from the Eagles Nest, Hitlers vacation home that was one of the last battlegrounds of World War II, Cawthorn referred to Hitler as the Fuhrer and said the spot was on his bucket list, in addition to calling Hitler a supreme evil.
Its very concerning, Manheimer told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Wednesday. Throughout the last several years, since Trump has been elected president, I think all of us have seen that white supremacists are emboldened and are publicly making their positions known, and to elect someone to office who openly throws out dog whistles like this, it just makes me really sad, actually, first and foremost. It makes me sad, disappointed, worried.
Cawthorn briefly took down the photos after the website Jezebel called attention to them. But they were publicly visible again Wednesday, and Cawthorn tweeted that the criticism is another fake news controversy. In defense of the post, he tweeted a photo of grinning Allied soldiers who conquered the Eagles Nest in 1945. They werent celebrating evil; they were celebrating their victory over evil, he wrote.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/madison-cawthorns-visit-to-hitlers-vacation-home-alarms-his-nc-districts-jews/
PS: Thank you for the heads-up, keithbvadu2. Knowledge is power. And its sad how little such people know.
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I laugh each time they do this because there's always at least one asshole who does it wrong.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2021
#44
That lady was a Trump administration official helping guide Kavanaugh into the SC
Beakybird
Jan 2021
#2
The Republican's have been suppressing voters and using gerrymandering for decades to stay in power.
jalan48
Jan 2021
#13
FOX News' Roger Ailes was a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#31
The reTHUGS do their ratfucking in plain sight. Why do we let them get away with it?
abqtommy
Jan 2021
#16
There were American Nazis waiting for Hitler to take control in the 1930s...
AntiFascist
Jan 2021
#32
Madison Cawthorn's visit to Hitler's vacation home alarms his NC district's Jews
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#39
They embraced it long ago and have been desperate to come out for decades.
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2021
#23