Far-left wants you to forget their hot takes burned cities to the ground

Francesca Hong hits the campaign trail like any other candidate — shaking hands, kissing babies, petting dogs and smiling through selfies.Watching her conduct the mundane business of politicking, it’s easy to forget the absurdity of her worldview and the chaos that making her Wisconsin’s next governor would invite.Hong has called for the abolition of police, prisons and Thanksgiving; she’s argued the first exists to “uphold white supremacy”; she called the last a “colonizer holiday” that killed “Indegenous folx”; she’s even pointed to her white ex-husband and half-white son as examples of her lamentable “proximity to whiteness.”On Monday, at a get out the vote event in Sun Prairie, a blue-leaning suburb of Madison, Hong was confronted over her past views.“You know, I was actually trying to become a sports journalist when I first went to college.So I learned then you have some hot takes, sometimes bad takes on Twitter, and I let my feelings out into the world,” she explained before changing the subject to her favorite refrains: “permanent affordability,” tax the ultra rich” and a whole host of other “universal” goodies.Hot takes, huh? Like Stephen A.

Smith spouting off about the Cowboys? Or your friend who likes Nickelback?The hot takes fired off by Hong earlier in her thirties — the ones she’s halfheartedly walked back to the benefit of her statewide campaign in purple Wisconsin — proved far from harmless.In June 2020, Hong demanded that the city government defund the police.In November of that same year, she renewed that call for them to be “re-imagined and re-structured at every level.”In between, riots in cities across the country, egged on by the Democratic Party and facilitated by its progressive wing, claimed the lives of more than two dozen of Americans and resulted in billions of dollars in property damage.Among the dead: 77-year-old David Dorn, a retired black police captain who was murdered for trying to s...