Hong is the current frontrunner for the Democrat nomination for governor of Wisconsin, and she’s quite a piece of work:

Francesca Hong is a card-carrying, dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). There are multiple social media posts from Hong calling for the abolition of the Senate, police, prisons, ICE, and our borders. That all aligns with the DSA platform that was spelled out by co-chair Megan Romer on Fox News the other day.

That won’t play well with the voters in red areas or swing states like Wisconsin, and Hong knows that. Her campaign denied that Hong ever said she supported abolishing the Senate (and fact-checkers dutifully circled the wagons on her), and Hong is trying to put some distance between herself and the party she’s supported for years. …

Run as a moderate, govern as a radical.

Examples at the link.

Will it work? It certainly seems to have put her on track to win the nomination, and although it’s hard to believe that the voters of Wisconsin will want her as their governor, stranger things have happened.

This whole idea of hiding who you are is a winning strategy for many leftists, although they are increasingly honest about their goals – and platforms like Twitter (X) make it harder for someone like Hong to run away from past statements. There is a history of this sort of dissemblance, and I believe it really came to flower with the candidacy of Barack Obama.

Yesterday I happened to come across an interview between Winston Marshall and Steven Barrett, discussing the leftist movement that began in Britain long ago known as the Fabians. Although as far as I know, Hong doesn’t call herself a Fabian, she does seem to conform to what Barrett is describing here. I think the whole video is of interest, but it’s very long and you can get the gist of the important part if you watch just the first few minutes, in which Barrett likens the DSA and its current ilk to the Fabians:

NOTE: I wrote a fairly lengthy post in 2012 that described Obama as a Fabian. Please see this.