WHO'S MADISON CAWTHORN READING ON UKRAINE? A GUY WHO BELIEVES WE'RE UNDERGOING WHITE GENOCIDE.

By now you probably know about this:

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina told supporters he thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a "thug"—a comment that runs counter to the overwhelming share of Republicans with a favorable view of the leader fending off a military invasion from Russia.

"Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug," Cawthorn said in a video obtained by WRAL. "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."

There's video at the link above.

What got Cawthorn worked up about Zelenskyy? WRAL explains:

[Cawthorn] ... sought to justify calling Zelenskyy a "thug" by accusing the Ukrainian president of pushing "misinformation on America." He posted a link to a conservative blog post with examples, including a story of Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island who were feared to have been killed in a Feb. 24 Russian attack later being reported as "alive and well."

The Washington Post has more:

In a statement, Cawthorn spokesman Luke Ball said the lawmaker was referring to pro-Ukraine misinformation.

“The Congressman was expressing his displeasure at how foreign leaders, including Zelensky, had recently used false propaganda to entice America into becoming involved in an overseas conflict,” Ball said. “He supports Ukraine and the Ukrainian President’s efforts to defend their country against Russian aggression, but does not want America drawn into another conflict through emotional manipulation.”

He also pointed to a Twitter thread Thursday afternoon in which Cawthorn shared a link to a blog detailing some pro-Ukraine misinformation being spread online.

That would be this:

The actions of Putin and Russia are disgusting.

But leaders, including Zelensky, should NOT push misinformation on America.

I am praying for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.

Pray also we are not drawn into conflict based on foreign leaders pushing misinformation.

— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) March 10, 2022

The link in that first tweet takes you to a Substack post by a writer named Pedro L. Gonzalez, which portrays Zelenskyy's efforts to showcase (and, at times, perhaps overstate) the bravery of the Ukrainian people as a monstrous act of disinformation. The soldiers on Snake Island who said "Go fuck yourself" to incoming Russians and later were reported killed, but then we learned that they were actually taken alive. Gonzalez is appalled.

... Ukrainian misinformation is pointed largely at the West, with outright propaganda promoted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself. Ukraine’s efforts are designed to bring the United States and NATO into the war. Sometimes it is subtle; other times, it is as unsubtle as a hammer hitting an anvil.

Gonzalez is an editor of Chronicles, a magazine published by the Charlemagne Institute, which, like every other self-important "intellectual" organization on the right, sees its mission as saving Western civilization from the abyss, or liberalism, which is the same thing.

In 800 A.D., Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Historians agree, that moment signaled the end of the Dark Age brought about by the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of an enlightened, Judeo-Christian West. Our job today is to illuminate a different path for a new generation of Americans, a path out of a dark age and into a bright future.

Sadly, we fear the potential of something akin to a technologically advanced dark age coming soon to America. The wisdom and principles of the past—time-tested and proven—were purposefully not passed on to most young Americans. Instead, they were taught to reject the idea of objective truths and principles, to reject the past, and to seek endless revolutionary progress in the hope of finding personal, emotional happiness....

Today, the opponents of the West and America, the cultural Marxists and various agents of political correctness and globalism are purposefully aiming at the foundations of our American Republic, at the Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman tradition. Sadly, we the American people require more than a reminder of our American roots; we must relearn the ancient wisdom and principles that have been forgotten or purposefully not passed on.

And that is the role of Charlemagne Institute: to defend the ideas of that tradition and use it to advance Western Civilization.

In his most recent column for Chronicles, Gonzalez argues that white genocide is taking place in America:

The political hostility of the United States today is directed at no one more than America’s European-descended whites—the group whose ancestors are largely responsible for settling, building, and defending this country.

That is not to say others contributed nothing, but that the largest contributions and, indeed, the central elements of America’s political and cultural institutions are largely derived from the beliefs, practices, tastes, and traditions of European settlers. Presently, however, this group is public enemy number one. Recent events amid the left’s latest political putsch and the COVID-19 outbreak illustrate what is essentially a genocidal enmity toward whites and its practical intensification.

Last year, American Greatness published a Gonzalez essay titled "The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon."

For years, whites in America were told that it is fine to celebrate German or Dutch or Anglo heritage, but that “white” was a fake or problematic category. The current controversy shows that this was always in bad faith. Hating white Americans, denying them the same sense of identity—and thus dignity—that is afforded to every other group was the point.

Racists do seem to make their way to the Charlemagne Institute now and again. Here's a story from 2019:

A Minnesota think tank parted ways Friday with its academic internship director following the publication of e-mails in which the man expressed racist and white nationalist views, including praise for Adolf Hitler.

John Elliott, 64, had served as a senior fellow since early 2018 at the Bloomington-based Charlemagne Institute, a nonprofit conservative organization dedicated to "defending and advancing Western civilization." He also was listed as the director of the institute's internship program.

A report published Thursday by Splinter News, a news and opinion website, included numerous messages written by Elliott between 2015 and 2018 to a private e-mail group known as "Morning Hate." In the conversations, Elliott and other participants regularly used racist and homophobic language. Elliott encouraged his associates to use code words in place of racial and anti-Semitic epithets in their messages and during in-person public "Hateups." The code words also were used to praise President Donald Trump and Hitler. Elliott referred to the German dictator as "our good friend."

The Splinter News story gave more details on the code:

... Elliott ... rattled off the code words the thread used in its chats: “Hawaiians” was a stand-in for “Hebes,” an anti-Semitic slur referring to Jews; “Alaskans” for “N’s” (the n-word); “our good friend” for “AH” (Adolf Hitler); and “our good friend’s son” for Trump.

Meanwhile, when Pedro Gonzalez isn't worrying over white genocide, he's hosting a podcast. He tells us about a recent episode:

Raw Egg Nationalism | Discourses

Will a daily dose of raw milk and three dozen raw eggs empower you to join the ranks of "the most violent group of people who ever lived"? My latest guest on the Discourses podcast thinks so. I discuss this and more with steppe warrior and men's magazine publisher Raw Egg Nationalist.

Raw Egg Nationalist's book tells us that "the massive consumption of raw eggs save us physically and politically from the depredations of globalism." Gonzalez said he "was very excited about this interview." I bet he was. I wonder if Cawthorn is a convert.