Francesca Hong’s 2020 tweet calling for the cancellation of Thanksgiving is more than a gaffe; it’s a window into the worldview that now leads the Democratic field for Wisconsin governor. The resurfaced post, written at the height of pandemic-era cultural purges, frames a 400-year-old American tradition as irredeemably tainted—an attitude that treats every inherited institution as suspect until proven “safe” by progressive litmus tests. For the 2A community, that instinct is familiar: the same reflexive hostility that once targeted turkey dinners now routinely targets the Second Amendment, casting it as an embarrassing relic rather than a safeguard of liberty. Hong’s rhetoric suggests she would govern less as a neutral referee and more as an ideological auditor, ready to stamp “problematic” on anything that fails her purity checklist.

Wisconsin’s August 11 primary is therefore shaping up as a referendum on whether voters want an officeholder who views the state’s heritage—and its constitutional protections—as obstacles to be overcome. Gun owners already know the pattern: once cultural revisionism is normalized, statutory revisionism follows. A governor who once urged the public to “cancel Thanksgiving” is unlikely to treat the right to keep and bear arms as sacrosanct; she is far more likely to treat it as the next item on the list of traditions that must be “reimagined.” The 2A electorate should read the tweet not as youthful excess, but as an unfiltered mission statement—one that makes Election Day a contest between those who still believe in America’s founding principles and those who believe those principles need adult supervision.