Michigan Democratic Candidate William Lawrence Deleted Hundreds of Radical Posts Targeting Police, Senate, And Nuclear Family
A fresh coat of paint can hide a lot – cracked walls, water damage, even rot. But it can’t fix what’s underneath. And in politics, the equivalent of a paint job is a frantic evening with the delete button, scrubbing away every uncomfortable thing you’ve ever said before voters get a chance to see it.
Which brings us to Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, one of the most competitive House races in the country. The district went for President Trump in 2024. The Republican incumbent, Tom Barrett, is a former Army helicopter pilot who’s delivered tax cuts for working families and expanded veterans’ benefits.
His Democratic challenger is William Lawrence, co-founder of the Soros-backed Sunrise Movement – because nothing says “mainstream candidate” quite like co-founding a radical climate organization whose stated mission includes “fighting fascism to win a Green New Deal.” And Lawrence, it turns out, had quite a bit of scrubbing to do.
What the delete button couldn’t hide
CNN’s investigative unit, KFILE – not exactly a conservative outfit – reported Friday that Lawrence deleted hundreds of social media posts before launching his campaign. The posts revealed a man who didn’t just lean left. He wanted to tear the whole house down.
From CNN’s reporting, via journalist Andrew Kaczynski:
Lawrence’s deleted posts show him writing “f**k” the nuclear-family home and calling it an “isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society,” envisioning “a world of free and open migration,” and calling to “Abolish the Senate.” Lawrence even wrote a song inspired by moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s resistance to Democrats’ climate agenda: “Our generation says f**k you for everything. Hurry up and die so that we can get started.”
Read that again if you need to. I did. Abolish the police. Abolish prisons. Abolish the Senate. A “fundamental overhaul” of the Constitution. Open borders. “Forced nationalization.” And the nuclear family – the bedrock of civilization since long before the American founding – dismissed as violent. Is there a single American institution this man didn’t want to demolish?
This wasn’t some teenager ranting into the void. Lawrence was a professional progressive organizer when he wrote these things. He was arrested in 2013 for chaining himself to pipeline equipment and resisting police. His conviction was later expunged, but the instincts that led to it clearly weren’t.
When confronted, Lawrence offered the thinnest of defenses: he says he now “disagrees with some” of his old posts. Some. Not all. And he won’t say which ones. Convenient, that.
A pattern, not an accident
Lawrence isn’t even the only Michigan Democrat running this playbook. Abdul El-Sayed, the party’s Senate nominee, deleted years of social media posts before his general election campaign – his team openly admitting it was done “to prevent any old posts from being taken out of context.” Bipartisan Michigan consultant Adrian Hemond nailed it: El-Sayed has a “Quacks like a duck problem.” So does Lawrence. At what point do we stop calling this coincidence and start calling it strategy?
The rot underneath
Look, I’m not the guy who thinks people can’t grow. We all say things at 25 we wouldn’t say at 40. But there’s a canyon-sized difference between evolving on a policy position and systematically erasing an entire worldview that rejected law enforcement, the constitutional order, national borders, and the American family. That’s not growth. That’s a costume change.
The contrast in MI-7 couldn’t be sharper. On one side, a man who flew helicopters for his country. On the other, a man who wrote songs telling sitting senators to hurry up and die so his generation could remake America in its own radical image.
Michigan voters deserve to see the candidate behind the cleanup – not the version that survived the delete button. Come November, they’ll render their own verdict. Good luck deleting that.
Key Takeaways
- Michigan Democrat William Lawrence deleted hundreds of radical social media posts before launching his congressional campaign.
- Deleted posts called for abolishing police, prisons, the Senate, and the nuclear family.
- Lawrence isn’t alone – Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee ran the same delete-and-deny playbook.
- Voters in this Trump-won swing district deserve to see the candidate behind the cleanup.
