Francesca Hong distances herself from Democratic Socialists, but only after endorsing their platform and tweeting some truly unhinged takes

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Francesca Hong, the polling favorite to become the next Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, went on Fox News today to defend her socialist views.

It went pretty much exactly as you'd expect.

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She's the candidate for the people!

And nothing is better for the people than abolishing the police, right?

Here's another clip that should be used by her opponents (on both sides of the aisle):

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Yeah, nothing screams "midwestern mom" like seizing the means of production and having government-run businesses.

Then, of course, she's asked point blank if there's any part of the DSA platform she disagrees with. Here's her answer:

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Her one area of disagreement is something she previously agreed with, just five years ago.

(And, in case you need a refresher on the DSA platform, we covered that recently here.)

Something tells me that Hong may not be right for Wisconsin ...

Her old tweets keep coming back up and they are unhinged.

Like this tweet from 2019:

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Or this tweet from 2020:

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Great idea to publicly hate on white people when running for governor of one of the whitest states in the country! That'll go over well!

And Thanksgiving's racist?

The only worse sin she could commit in Wisconsin is to trash Culver's!

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Lord, have mercy.

The eyes don't lie ...

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Republicans should be able to cruise into this governorship. There's no way to mess this up!

Right?

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