Republican North Carolina Representative and valor-stealing Hitler enthusiast Madison Cawthorn is getting dragged online following a very weird tweet about the book 1984 that reads exactly like a grade-school book report. A very bad grade-school book report.
Cawthorn seems to have thought he was making a point--presumably about Democrats being tyrants for wanting to allow people to vote and endeavoring to do the bear minimum about the pandemic, or whatever. But instead he just ended up doing a face-plant.
Because this tweet of Cawthorn's? As seen below, it has LAYERS of dim-witted WTFness. And Twitter is absolutely roasting him for it.
1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.— Madison Cawthorn (@Madison Cawthorn) 1628641963
Cawthorn tweeted, for some reason:
"1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day."
First of all, all novels are fiction. That's literally the definition of "novel." So we're already off to a great start.
More important: What is this syntax? Did a grade-schooler write this? Was it Take Your Niece or Nephew to Work Day and Cawthorn turned the social media reins over to an 11-year-old for the afternoon? Because this is absolutely the opening salvo to a book report by a grade-schooler who absolutely did not read 1984.
Representative Cawthorn, if you're reading this: Can you please summarize the plot of George Orwell's 1984? Off the cuff only, no Googling!
Of course, Cawthorn is only the latest Republican to namecheck1984, a dystopian novel by a socialist about a totalitarian world where war-mongering right-wing capitalists use propaganda and misinformation to distort truth and maintain power. (Sound familiar?)
Everyone from former Republican President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., to Republican Representative Lauren Boebert has referenced the book on Twitter of late. It's become Republicans' favorite way to slander, in the stupidest way possible, Democratic President Joe Biden as some sort of fascistic tyrant while betraying the fact that they've never cracked 1984, or any other book for that matter, in their entire lives.
But as low as that bar is, Cawthorn's tweet just might be the dumbest, and Twitter had a field day raking him over the coals.
Translation: "I have never read 1984."https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Tom Nichols (@Tom Nichols) 1628647011
FICTION NOVEL FROM THE BOOK LIBRARY— WokeMeansYouLoseHat (@WokeMeansYouLoseHat) 1628647287
\u201cWe went to the food restaurant and then saw the movie film and drove the convertible car back to my house home! \n\nI\u2019m the best in the GOP Republican Party at communications talk!\u201d— Kevin M. Kruse (@Kevin M. Kruse) 1628647297
"Fiction novel"https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— S.V. D\u00e1te (@S.V. D\u00e1te) 1628648083
What are some other great fiction novels to read?https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— James Urbaniak (@James Urbaniak) 1628647418
"wow, 1984, theres a lot of things to say about 1984 the novel by famous author george orwell isnt there? first of all 1984 is a year, and it is the year that comes after 1983 but it is in fact before 1985. you know also that many interesting things happened in 1985..."— Oliver Willis (@Oliver Willis) 1628648919
not only does this read like it was written by somebody who has never read 1984, but it reads like someone who wasn't even sure it's a bookhttps://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1628647892
Lol this is how I used to start book reports when I couldn\u2019t find the cliffs notes.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Sam Youngman (@Sam Youngman) 1628647503
"in conclusion, 1984 is a great fiction novel that everyone should read. thank you for listening to my book report"— Jeff Tiedrich (@Jeff Tiedrich) 1628647989
We look forward to Cawthorn's next dim-witted tweet. It'll be hard to beat this one, of course, but if anyone can do it Cawthorn can. We believe in you, Madison!
