Lefty Michigan House candidate wished death on centrist Democrats in old social media post: Hurry up and die

Socialist Michigan House hopeful William Lawrence pined for the speedy demise of centrist Democratic lawmakers getting in the way of lefty policies in twisted song lyrics he penned and then posted on social media. Lawrence, the Democratic candidate in Michigan’s battleground 7th Congressional District, explained in a since-deleted X post unearthed by CNN Friday that he was inspired to write the profane tune after then-Democratic West Virginia Sen.Joe Manchin came out against former President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better plan. “So long, thanks for the memories […] Our generation says f–k you for everything […] From these ashes we will rebuild […] Hurry up and die so that we can get started,” Lawrence wrote in a December 2021 post. Lawrence, who is also the co-founder of the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, repeatedly raged against the nuclear family; called for the abolition of prisons and the Senate; and longed for the “eradication” of borders in several other since-deleted posts. “Biggest W of my late 20s was finding a long-term stable co-op house.

F–k isolation and the nuclear family domicile,” he posted in 2021. “[T]he nuclear family home is an isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society,” Lawrence fumed in 2022.“I don’t want to be part of that.” A few days later, the Democratic House candidate seemingly expressed a preference for “Queer families” and “wealth sharing” over “the hetero-patriarchial nuclear family” and “wealth accumulation.” “But y’all ain’t ready for that convo…” he added. In a 2020 post, Lawrence simply wrote: “Abolish the Senate.” He referred to efforts to “defund the police” during the violent riots in the wake of George Floyd’s killing as a “master class in expanding political horizons and a historic contribution to the Black liberation tradition.” “We are nearer to a world without police and prisons because of their effor...