Many on the left hate what makes America great. It’s sickening.
And a Democrat candidate just attacked this great American holiday.
Francesca Hong, the Democrat candidate for governor of Wisconsin, found herself on the defensive during a recent episode of CNN’s The Source.
Host Kaitlan Collins pressed her on a past tweet calling for Thanksgiving to be canceled. Hong tried to walk a careful line, mixing personal stories with progressive talking points that treat a core American tradition as a source of harm.
Collins asked directly, “Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?”
Hong’s reply ran long and careful:
“I’m 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 in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years, that, bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community, is always a good thing.”
“But Thanksgiving is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so, I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve.”
“And the position that I’m running for right now, and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that’s able to bring more people to the table.”
The answer reveals the familiar pattern. First comes the personal credential—chef, restaurant owner, teenage community meal. Then comes the obligatory nod to collective pain.
Finally comes the soft claim that views change, as if that settles the matter. Nowhere does Hong renounce the earlier call to cancel the holiday.
She simply layers on enough ambiguity to keep the base happy while hoping swing voters look the other way.
Thanksgiving remains one of the few remaining shared American rituals.
Families gather, give thanks for what they have, and share a meal without needing permission from activists or politicians.
To describe that day as “incredibly painful for many people in our communities” is to adopt the language of those who treat the country’s founding and its traditions as permanent moral stains.
Hong’s words treat the holiday itself as the problem rather than any real hardship.
