William Lawrence, a Democrat candidate for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, who once begged leftist streamer Hasan Piker for an appearance on his show, called the nuclear-family home an “isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society” in a now-deleted X post.
“Biggest W of my late 20s was finding a long-term stable co-op house. F— isolation and the nuclear family domicile,” the 36-year-old wrote.
Lawrence, who started the green-energy activist organization the Sunrise Movement, added in a different, now-deleted post that the “hetero-patriarchal nuclear family” is a “MATERIAL foundation of wealth accumulation” since inheritance was concentrated through male family lines, adding that “Queer families create MATERIAL conditions for solidarity and wealth sharing.”
In other posts, Lawrence added that he wants to “envision a world of free and open migration, and a world beyond the nation-state and capitalism. He also called America a “s— hole country” and advocated for “destroying the American way of life” and to “redistribute all the land and all the money” to make up for America’s “evil deeds,” in his podcast in 2024.
A self-described leftist activist, Lawrence has expressed his rage with more moderate Democrats, adding that “it’s time for the Dem civil war to rage.”
Not only did Lawrence call to abolish the Senate, but he also wrote a song lyric after former Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s resistance to the Left’s’ climate agenda titled “Our generation says f— you for everything.”
“So long, thanks for the memories, our generation says f— you for everything, from these ashes we will rebuild, hurry up and die so that we can get started,” the song lyric reads.
In 2020, after then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., criticized the left’s “defund the police” chant, Lawrence dismissed her comments as a “tantrum” and warned that “timid Dems” like Spanberger could “leave the Party” if they could not accept the activist Left.
In a different post, he urged progressives to go “scorched earth” on the rest of the Democratic Party if they failed to enact former President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda.
DSA & Sunrise Movement
Although Lawrence allowed his Democratic Socialists of America membership to lapse earlier this year, the Sunrise Movement, the leftist activist organization that Lawrence co-founded in 2015 and that originally focused on pushing the Green New Deal agenda, regularly partners with DSA and other leftist chapters to protest conservative policies.
As reported by The College Fix, the Sunrise Movement has been active on college campuses in student-led protests against President Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The College Fix noted that at Rutgers University, for example, Sunrise Movement partnered up with groups such as the American Association of University Professors, the Young Democratic Socialists of America, and the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University in producing a toolkit that instructs students to “create a crisis for university admin through an escalating campaign.”
Another College Fix article noted that the Sunrise Movement organized protests at Georgetown University and Howard University, which chanted “from Palestine to Mexico, all these laws have got to go,” in an effort to organize students against the president’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., is now at a record low crime rate since the National Guard deployment.
According to its website, the organization now aims to “radically transform our school system to face the climate crisis and make sure all students have the right to a safe and good education—no matter their zip code or the color of their skin.”
Lawrence faces incumbent Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., on Nov. 3rd.
Lawrence’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
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