After facing a grassroots effort to prevent him from running for re-election, far-right Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn has been branded “deplorable” by a newspaper in his home state.
In an editorial, the Winston-Salem Journal wrote that Mr Cawthorn – whom it described as “North Carolina’s gift to Crazytown” – went too far recently by describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “thug”. “This is a David and Goliath story,” wrote the editors, “and Cawthorn thinks Goliath got a bad rap.”
