A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina deleted several 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, a Trump-loving candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th District, could be seen smiling in several photos taken at various locations at the Eagle’s Nest.
The photos were removed Monday, the same day that a report by 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 “the Führer,” a term of