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Fox News put Wisconsin voters on notice this week as the network’s coverage dug into a trove of past social media posts from Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong, highlighting a pattern of radical rhetoric that can’t be shrugged off as youthful indiscretion. The network’s reporting — amplified on The Faulkner Focus — underscores a simple reality: when candidates’ old posts call for dismantling core institutions, voters deserve to know the truth.
Those posts are not minor quips; they include explicit calls to “defund, then abolish” police departments, language that rings alarm bells for anyone who values law and order and the safety of our neighborhoods. Major outlets have documented this history, and Hong’s public record shows she embraced ideas that would leave Wisconsin less safe and less secure if enacted.
Beyond policing, Hong’s digital trail includes inflammatory cultural hits — urging a canceling of Thanksgiving, dismissing Valentine’s Day as capitalist theater, and engaging in rhetoric that paints everyday American traditions as complicit in oppression. These are not harmless provocations; they reveal a worldview that is detached from the concerns of hardworking Wisconsinites who put food on the table and want stable communities.
Her campaign’s embrace of the influencer circuit — including appearances on divisive livestream platforms with hosts who traffic in far-left takes — only deepened worries that Hong is more interested in national virtue-signaling than governing Wisconsin. Those appearances brought national money and attention, but also legitimate questions about judgment and the allies a potential governor would cultivate.
When challenged, Hong’s team has at times tried to walk back or disavow specific posts, but explanations offered after the fact don’t erase the record that helped build her national profile in the first place. Voters are right to ask whether a candidate who once praised dismantling core institutions can be trusted to defend the rule of law and protect families. The pushback from the campaign only proves how politically toxic these positions are outside the activist bubble.
Republicans and sensible Democrats alike are sounding alarms because Wisconsin is too important to hand over to experiments in radical governance; this primary is not an invitation to gamble with public safety and fiscal sanity. The contrast could not be clearer: pragmatic leadership that respects tradition and the rule of law versus ideological theater that courts national attention at the expense of local stability.
Hardworking Americans should view this as more than a state primary squabble — it’s a test of whether common-sense values can survive a Democratic Party increasingly comfortable with extreme rhetoric. If conservatives and independents don’t engage and remind neighbors what’s at stake, we’ll wake up to policies that endanger our communities and tax the freedoms our parents fought to preserve.
