In the end, the Republican Party decided that Rep. Madison Cawthorn‘s (R-NC) unforgivable sin was not his starring role on the stage from which then-President Donald Trump beckoned his followers to march to the Capitol and “stop the steal.” It was not his false claims that those Jan. 6 rioters were crisis actors “paid by the Democratic machine” nor was it his declaration that Volodymyr Zelensky is a “thug” presiding over the “evil” nation of Ukraine.

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