A socialist Dem running for Wisconsin governor became visibly uncomfortable and served up a word salad when asked whether she still stands by her call to “cancel Thanksgiving” because it is “celebrating colonialism.”
At the height of the Covid pandemic, Francesca Hong, who is the frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee in America’s Dairyland, said that the beloved holiday needs to be scrapped, and that America “should have done this in 1621.”
She added: “If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it.”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Hong point-blank Monday whether she really believes that, and the democratic socialist uncorked with a bizarre 46-second response in which she made no effort to deny that she still wants to throw out the turkey.
I’m a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when i was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for 7-8 years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.
But Thanksgiving is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities. So I think there I wanted to make sure people understood there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
And the position I’m running for right now — and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that’s able to bring more people to the table.
Collins then thanked the candidate for joining her and concluded the interview.
The socialist darling’s Thanksgiving hatred is not an anomaly, though. Hong has gotten hung up about at least seven American holidays in social media posts.
These include rants against Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas.
“I miss working in a restaurant every day…except on VDay,” she wrote in 2022, bemoaning working the holiday in the service industry.
“As if we weren’t invisible enough to those who don’t recognize the emotional & physical labor of service work, the worst of humanity comes out from folks ‘celebrating’ on another day capitalism tells you how to show love,” the post concludes.
In 2024 she used the occasion of Mother’s Day to remind everybody they should be sad.
“Today can be a beautiful day of celebration for some, and a difficult or melancholy day for others. Whatever mother’s day means to you, please be gentle with yourself and kind to others,” she wrote.
Just around the corner, Hong again dipped her ladle into her reservoir of misery for Father’s Day.
“To all those who celebrate father’s day we share your joy. For those who feel pain, ambivalence or grief on this day we see you. No matter what your family looks like or who your family is, we hope today is still filled with light and love for tomorrow,” she wrote, in what is possibly the most uplifting of her gloomy holiday posts.
Next up was July 4th, to which she opined, “1852, on the 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass gave a speech at the official event commemorating the signing, asking the question, ‘What to the slave is the Fourth of July?’” her 2022 post read.
“While we are not enslaved, it is worth it, for those of us seeing our liberties, freedom, and human rights systematically stripped away, to ask what is the Fourth of July to us?” she wrote at the midway point of the Biden administration.
Hong couldn’t mask her displeasure with Halloween, either, writing in 2019, “I don’t allow myself to work Halloween weekend or the day of. I would actually ask every single person in costume to leave,” her puzzling, context-free All Hallows’ Eve post read.
Then of course came her now-infamous deleted Thanksgiving post, but to round out the year she gift-wrapped herself some victimhood points in the spirit of the season.
“IT bro who was working on ‘our’ computer remotely changed the background theme to snow and Christmas trees. I feel slightly attacked…” she wrote in 2019.
Hong’s team did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment, including an inquiry about her grievances reserved for New Year’s Eve, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veterans Day.
