You Won’t Believe Which Holiday The Socialists Want To End

A Wisconsin chef-turned-candidate went from “Cancel Thanksgiving” to “It’s my favorite holiday” in less than a week, and the whiplash tells you a lot more about modern politics than it does about turkey and stuffing.

Story Snapshot

Francesca Hong’s deleted 2020 post urged America to “Cancel Thanksgiving” as colonialism and a “superspreader event.”
Pressed on CNN about whether she still believes that, she dodged a yes-or-no and said “views can evolve.”
After backlash, she told Politico that Thanksgiving is actually her “favorite holiday” and she does not want to cancel it.
Conservatives now frame the episode as the flip flop of all time and a textbook case of woke rhetoric colliding with real voters.

From Cancel Thanksgiving To “I Actually Love It”

Francesca Hong’s trouble started with a now-deleted post from November 2020, when she wrote, “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” calling the holiday a celebration of colonialism and “the original superspreader event that killed Indigenous folx and women.” That post sat mostly unnoticed outside activist circles until the 2026 Wisconsin governor race turned hot. Once she became the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Republicans and conservative media pulled the screenshot off the shelf and made it a centerpiece of their argument that she is far outside mainstream values.

The spark that turned an old post into a national story came when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Hong directly if she still believed Thanksgiving should be canceled. Hong had one job in that moment: say yes or no. Instead, she reached for her biography. She told Collins she is a chef and that one of her first community meals at 16 was a Thanksgiving dinner, then added that Thanksgiving is “incredibly painful for many people in our communities” and closed with “there are multiple views, but views can evolve.” That answer never touched the core question. It sounded like an attempt to please everyone and satisfied no one.

Walking It Back Once The Backlash Hit

Once the CNN clip spread, the reaction was swift. Conservative outlets hammered the non-answer as proof she still stood by the “Cancel Thanksgiving” line but did not dare admit it on national television. Even some Democrats complained that refusing to say “no” handed Republicans a perfect culture-war weapon. The next day, Hong tried a different tack with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, calling her original post part of a series of “jokes” from years ago and saying she “loves” Thanksgiving. By Wednesday, in a Politico Playbook interview, she went further, calling Thanksgiving her “favorite holiday” and saying, “I don’t want to cancel it. I actually love it.” Her campaign also told Fox News digitally, “No, she does not want to ‘cancel’ Thanksgiving,” cleaning up what she had left messy on-air.

That sequence — activist rhetoric in 2020, a careful but evasive CNN answer, then a sharp pivot to “favorite holiday” once the firestorm grew — is why critics call this the flip flop of all time. The words on the page changed faster than voters’ memories. To many conservatives, the pattern fits a familiar script: say something radical when talking to the base, then claim it was a joke or “context” when regular people finally hear it. Hong’s insistence that the holiday is painful for some and her stress on “views can evolve” sits uneasily next to the sudden warmth she showed once her campaign felt heat. Whether that is genuine growth or pure damage control is exactly what skeptics are now arguing about.

Why Thanksgiving Became A Proxy For Character

This fight is not really about a single November tweet. It plugs into a broader trend where resurfaced social posts become a shortcut for judging a candidate’s character. Political operatives now comb through years of social media, looking for statements that can be framed as hostile to common traditions, extremist, or anti-police. In Hong’s case, opponents bundled the “Cancel Thanksgiving” post with other remarks about abolishing the Senate and critiques of whiteness to paint a picture of a far-left ideologue out of touch with her own state. That package lets them argue that the Thanksgiving reversal is part of a bigger pattern, not a one-off mistake.

Francesca Hong: the candidate who saw America’s favorite holidays and declared war. Cancel Thanksgiving, silence the fireworks, skip Halloween. Nothing says “ready to lead” like open hostility to joy itself. Grinchmaxxing for governor – bold strategy. pic.twitter.com/q1r7BdbiNG

— Jewels Jones ® (@JewelsJonesLive) August 6, 2026

For voters, the deeper issue is trust. Americans can accept that views change; many have shifted their own opinions on marriage, policing, or foreign policy over time. But they expect honesty about the change. Saying “I was wrong” lands very differently than saying “I was joking” about a holiday millions treat as sacred time with family. From a conservative common-sense view, Hong’s biggest problem is not that she criticized Thanksgiving during a pandemic. It is that when finally pressed, she avoided a straight answer, then pivoted only after the political cost became clear. That looks less like conviction and more like calculation. In an age where people are tired of word games, that may be the real reason this flip flop sticks.