The Strange Deification of Luigi Mangione ｜ 12⧸19⧸24
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Summary
As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson s assassination went public, the left began turning the murderer into a folk hero. Before the shooter s identity was even known, progressives celebrated the act, inventing fictional backstories to glorify the killing as a form of noble revenge. Now that Luigi Mangione has been apprehended, late-night comedians are swooning over him, and progressive fanatics are even tattooing his image on their bodies.
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As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination on a New York City street went public,
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the left began turning the murderer into a folk hero.
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Before the shooter's identity was even known, progressives celebrated the act,
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inventing fictional backstories to glorify the killing as a form of noble revenge.
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Now that Luigi Mangione has been apprehended, late night comedians are swooning over him
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and progressive fanatics are even tattooing his image on their bodies.
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The justification for this disturbing behavior is the claim of obscene profits made by corrupt healthcare companies.
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Yet these very same progressives attacked anyone who questioned the COVID-19 vaccine
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while pharmaceutical companies were making record profits.
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The disturbing truth is that the left harbors a deep appetite for political violence
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and celebrates anyone who harms its perceived enemies.
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From the very start, Thompson's murder stood out as bizarre.
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The video, which showed a calm, methodical killer shooting Thompson in the back,
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made it clear that it was no random street crime.
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Authorities launched a manhunt that ended when customers recognized Mangione
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The Altoona Police Department received death threats for arresting Mangione,
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and the McDonald's location was flooded with negative online reviews.
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Meanwhile, false claims circulated, including a fabricated story that UnitedHealthcare
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had denied Mangione coverage for a critical back surgery.
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desperately twisting the assassination to fit their political agenda.
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but it did little to align him with any mainstream political movement.
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Far from being a desperate victim driven to violence,
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the alleged assassin came from a wealthy family,
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While Mangione harbored a deep hatred for the healthcare industry,
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he also appeared to have a general disdain for much of the modern world.
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Progressives may have cheered his alleged choice of targets,
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but Mangione hardly fits the image of a working class,
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revolutionary, spurred to action by dire circumstances,
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no matter how much the left wishes to believe otherwise.
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Conservatives must recognize that one doesn't need to be a violent Marxist revolutionary
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to see that America's healthcare system is broken.
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Americans pay exorbitant amounts for healthcare.
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constantly looking for ways to cut costs and deny coverage.
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seemingly designed to frustrate patients into abandoning claims.
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Ballooning costs can destroy the financial future of anyone facing a medical emergency.
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Now, government interference in the industry and the added strain
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caused by large-scale illegal immigration as individuals use the system without contributing to it
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However, these factors alone can't fully explain the disastrous state of healthcare in the United States.
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If conservatives dismiss this frustration by labeling anyone who points out the problem a Marxist,
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The problem isn't a lack of legitimate reasons to be angry with the state of the healthcare industry.
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The problem is that progressives use this grievance as a thin pretext for political violence.
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The left has no problem with healthcare corporations earning obscene profits when it serves a leftist agenda.
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During the pandemic, pharmaceutical companies pushed vaccines that failed to prevent infection or transmission
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These companies made record profits and were granted immunity from legal liability for any harm their products caused.
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Progressives never pushed back against these practices.
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Instead, they demonized anyone who questioned them.
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They tried to make vaccines mandatory, destroyed the careers of doctors who spoke out,
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censored medical facts, and smeared critics as science deniers.
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When generalist Christopher Ruffo exposed footage of hospital officials boasting about profits from child transition surgeries,
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surgeries that make patients dependent for life, progressives ignored it.
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They didn't turn on the healthcare establishment.
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Instead, they continued to push for the mutilation of children and attacked anyone who opposed their gender jihad.
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If conservatives resorted to violence against a doctor profiting from these surgeries,
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or a pharmaceutical CEO earning money from faulty vaccines,
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the left would have immediately labeled them deranged terrorists.
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While real issues exist within the healthcare industry,
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the left holds no principled stance against providers or pharmaceutical companies profiting from misery.
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Progressives have no objection to corporations earning record profits or receiving legal protection after causing harm,
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Let's be honest, for most of the left, morality boils down to hating whoever the media tells them to hate,
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with no concern for applying a consistent standard.
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When a deranged assassin shot at Donald Trump, celebrities told progressives to cheer.
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And when the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was assassinated,
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celebrities once again signaled progressives to cheer.
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