NC-11: Republican Congressional candidate deletes photos from Hitler's retreat vacation

[RandySF]

(JTA) — A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina has taken down pictures he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited more than a dozen times.

Madison Cawthorn’s pictures were removed Monday, the same day that a report in Jezebel made the case that he is “following the playbook of other, more successful far-right Republicans in recent years, attempting to rebrand his extreme views … as squarely in the mainstream of the Republican Party.”

In addition to calling Hitler “Führer,” a term of reverence, Cawthorn also named his real estate company SPQR, a term popular among white nationalists, and displays in his home an early American flag that the Anti-Defamation League says has been appropriated by far-right extremists, according to the Jezebel report.

Cawthorn defeated a Republican who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump in June’s primary. Since the primary, however, the 25-year-old candidate has worked to convey his support for Trump, according to a report by AVL Watchdog, a nonprofit news organization covering the portion of North Carolina that Cawthorn is seeking to represent in the House of Representatives.



https://forward.com/fast-forward/452394/republican-congressional-candidate-deletes-photos-from-hitlers-retreat/

[magicarpet]

1. Nazis being Nazis,... ever so quietly....

Happy face and happy talk for Fascists so they can get their Nazi foot in the door.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[Retrograde]

3. SPQR? Is there nothing they won't co-opt?

SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanus - was used by the very diverse Roman empire, and is still used today by the city of Rome (it's weird to see it on manhole covers). As a (bit of a) classicist I won't let skinheads take that away!