Over the weekend, I wrote about how Brittany Boltinhouse, who was Miss North Carolina USA, was stripped of her crown after old social media posts surfaced in which Boltinhouse used the word "ni**a" multiple times. She made those posts almost a decade ago, when she was about 20 years old and not running for Miss USA. Despite that, Boltinhouse's offense was serious enough that she lost the title and the Miss North Carolina USA runner up will go on to the national competition.
Boltinhouse was not the first to have her aspirations ruined over old social media posts. Dozens of people who said or did stupid things as teens, in an age where the Internet is forever, lost jobs, scholarships, college enrollments, and faced other punishments.
Remember Justine Sacco? She was the woman who made a crude joke online about AIDS while flying to Africa. By the time her flight landed, she'd gone viral on social media and lost her job.
Accountability, it seems, only applies to some people. Because compare what happened to Boltinhouse and Sacco to the current Democrat primary frontrunner for Wisconsin governor, Francesca Hong. It's very likely Hong will lock up the race after today's primary.
Hong wants to be in charge of a state, and yet her prior social media posts are suddenly off-limits and, in the case of her wish to abolish the Senate, not reflective of her current political views.
Hong herself excused her posts as "bad takes."
HONG: "I was actually trying to become a sports journalist when I first went to college so I learned you sometimes have bad takes on Twitter."
— Tiffany War Room (@TiffanyWarRoom) August 10, 2026
Francesca Hong was a full grown adult and member of the Wisconsin Assembly when she said she wanted to abolish the police and prisons. pic.twitter.com/7rIQjg2e3G
"You know, I was actually trying to become a sports journalist when I first went to college, so I learned then that you have some hot takes, sometimes bad takes, on Twitter and I let my feelings out into the world," she said.
No. Hong, who was born in 1988, was a full-grown adult when she said these things online. She wasn't simply letting her "feelings out into the world," she was being honest.
Here are some of those posts.
On February 13, 2021, Hong wrote "Abolish the Senate."
Abolish the Senate. https://t.co/ndlENp9x2n
— Francesca Hong For Governor (@FrancescaHongWI) February 13, 2021
She wrote that again on March 6, 2021.
Abolish. The. Senate. https://t.co/bksoWvx1l8
— Francesca Hong For Governor (@FrancescaHongWI) March 6, 2021
On October 8, 2021, Hong wrote that "police exist to uphold white supremacy" after federal prosecutors declined to file charges against the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake, a career criminal who was armed with a knife and trying to abduct children.
How is 7 bullets in the back not excessive force.
— Francesca Hong For Governor (@FrancescaHongWI) October 8, 2021
Police exist to uphold white supremacy. Defund then abolish. Reform can't be an option.
My heart breaks for the trauma the Blake family and their community continues to endure.#BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/svRyj3MFtx
On April 12, 2021, Hong vowed to "abolish the police state" and that "reform has never been the answer to this system of harm."
To the communities who endure never ending trauma of violence sanctioned by the state I grieve with you always. Community care can and will exist. We must collectively work to end the violence and abolish the police state. Reform has never been the answer to this system of harm.
— Francesca Hong For Governor (@FrancescaHongWI) April 12, 2021
That same day, from her state Rep. account, she also wrote that "police won't stop responding with violence," that police are "deeply rooted in maintaining a carceral system upheld by white supremacy", and that "the priority can and only be to work to abolish the institution."
When an institution can only respond in violence because it is so deeply rooted in maintaining a carcerel system upheld by white supremacy, the priority can and only be to work to abolish the institution. 2/3
— Rep. Francesca Hong 홍윤정 (@StateRepHong) April 12, 2021
She spelled "carceral" wrong, too.
At the time she wrote these things, she was 32 years old. While I understand Democrats think you're still a child at 26, Hong was not young and naive. She knew what she was saying. She knows now what she believes. She has not changed.
And now she wants to be my governor.
I don't know how else to say this, because I've been beating this drum for a while: Hong has not changed her position on any of this. No matter how hard the media circles the wagons and refuses to fact-check her current statements against her prior positions, we all know this game: Hong will abolish the police. She will set criminals free. She will raise our taxes, end school choice, use the state-sanctioned violence she claims she abhors (when it's targeting criminals) against ICE agents. She will turn Wisconsin into East Minnesota.
The DSA has said that any candidate seeking its endorsement must pledge fidelity to its platform, which includes the abolition of police and prisons. Not one journalist has asked Hong how she plans to square that circle, nor have they asked her why — if her views have changed — she sought the endorsement of the Wisconsin Electoral Socialists, who praised Hong's "commitment to police and prison abolition." That endorsement came after Hong completed a questionnaire and an interview with the group in January of this year. She has not changed her position. She knows that. I know that. The media know that.
And so her Democrat supporters. If they believed Hong had done an about-face on any of this, they would revolt against her. They were livid when she merely suggested the Madison autonomous zone shut down.
If social media posts were enough to get Justine Sacco fired or Brittany Boltinhouse dethroned, they're more than enough to disqualify Francesca Hong from higher political office. Because my life, my income, and my safety were not threatened by Sacco or Boltinhouse.
Hong, on the other hand, threatens all three. Not just for me, but for the entire state of Wisconsin and with larger implications for America's sovereignty and forms of government. And her social media history proves she's utterly unqualified and unfit to lead a lemonade stand, let alone the state of Wisconsin.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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