{"id":980584,"date":"2026-08-04T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:19:28","slug":"wisconsin-gov-candidate-francesca-hongs-response-about-canceling-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/980584\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Gov. candidate Francesca Hong’s response about ‘canceling Thanksgiving’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u201ccancel Thanksgiving\u201d<\/a> because it is \u201ccelebrating colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the height of the Covid pandemic, Francesca Hong<\/a>, who is the frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee in America\u2019s Dairyland, said that the beloved holiday needs to be scrapped, and that America \u201cshould have done this in 1621.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong gave a rambling response when asked by Kaitlan Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. CNN<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong (C) greets people after a campaign rally on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong speaks during a campaign rally on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Getty Images<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n

But Thanksgiving is also a time that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

And the position I\u2019m running for right now \u2014 and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that\u2019s able to bring more people to the table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Collins then thanked the candidate for joining her and concluded the interview.<\/p>\n

The socialist darling\u2019s Thanksgiving hatred is not an anomaly, though. Hong has gotten hung up about at least seven American holidays in social media posts.<\/p>\n

These include rants against Valentine\u2019s Day, Mother\u2019s Day, Father\u2019s Day, the Fourth of July<\/a>, Halloween and Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss working in a restaurant every day\u2026except on VDay,\u201d she wrote in 2022, bemoaning working the holiday in the service industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs if we weren\u2019t invisible enough to those who don\u2019t recognize the emotional & physical labor of service work, the worst of humanity comes out from folks \u2018celebrating\u2019 on another day capitalism tells you how to show love,\u201d the post concludes.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also spoken out about Valentine\u2019s Day, Mother\u2019s Day, Father\u2019s Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas. AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh<\/p>\n

In 2024, she used the occasion of Mother\u2019s Day to remind everybody they should be sad.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday can be a beautiful day of celebration for some, and a difficult or melancholy day for others. Whatever mother\u2019s day means to you, please be gentle with yourself and kind to others,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Just around the corner, Hong again dipped her ladle into her reservoir of misery for Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo all those who celebrate father\u2019s 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,\u201d she wrote, in what is possibly the most uplifting of her gloomy holiday posts.<\/p>\n

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Next up was July 4th<\/a>, to which she opined, \u201c1852, 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, \u2018What to the slave is the Fourth of July?’\u201d her 2022 post read.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile 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?\u201d she wrote at the midway point of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Hong couldn\u2019t mask her displeasure with Halloween, either, writing in 2019, \u201cI don\u2019t allow myself to work Halloween weekend or the day of. I would actually ask every single person in costume to leave,\u201d her puzzling, context-free All Hallows\u2019 Eve post read.<\/p>\n

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), left, and left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker, center, stand with Wisconsin Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong during a campaign rally for Hong on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, in Milwaukee. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIT bro who was working on \u2018our\u2019 computer remotely changed the background theme to snow and Christmas trees. I feel slightly attacked\u2026\u201d she wrote in 2019.<\/p>\n

Hong\u2019s team did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment, including an inquiry about her grievances reserved for New Year\u2019s Eve, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veterans Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A socialist Dem running for Wisconsin governor became visibly uncomfortable and served up a word salad when asked…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[40896,51,7709,50,80,52,1154,1398,97583],"class_list":["post-980584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-headlines","tag-holidays","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-us-news","tag-wisconsin","tag-woke-culture"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117038623642601601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}