Francesca Hongs embarrassing loss just exposed her entire movement

On the rainy morning of primary day in Madison, a volunteer for Francesca Hong’s gubernatorial campaign told her that what they were doing together was about so much more than Wisconsin.“I think we’re going to make history, I really do!” he exclaimed.As the legendary Lee Corso might put it: not so fast, my friend.Despite the furor over her history as a police, prison and Thanksgiving abolitionist, Governor Tony Evers’ prodigious efforts to boost her opponent and the Sanders-Cortez axis’ abandonment of her, Hong had appeared to be on a glide path to the Democratic nomination.Every single recent survey of the race had suggested that she would win — and win handily — on Tuesday.In the final days of her campaign, Hong herself appeared assured of her own inevitability.She barely bothered to distinguish herself from her opponent, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, and couldn’t contain a smirk as she fantasized about welcoming Evers to her team in short order.In a particularly disturbing, hubristic middle finger to the press, her staff even turned journalists from both The Post and Fox News away at the door of her election night watch party.Would a Hong administration have also arbitrarily denied adversarial media access to her?I guess we’ll never know; she was so drunk on the idea of wielding power that she forgot to earn it.Despite having suspended his campaign for a week-and-change just last month and being written off by the national press, Crowley shocked the world on Tuesday, dealing a painful blow to both Hong and the movement from which she hails.Socialists with radical, holiday-hating politics have hit pay dirt in deep blue New York City.One even prevailed in next-door Michigan last week.But as it turns out, those victories also depended on the quality of the winning candidates.And a quality candidate Hong was not.Her self-sabotaging past rhetoric aside, she was utterly bereft of star power.A gregarious campaigner with a friendly smile;...