The Luigi Mangione phenomenon is disgusting. He has many thousands of fans, most of them young women, who applaud his murder of Brian Thompson. A large amount of money has been raised for his defense, and his appearances in court are greeted by throngs of admirers. Mangione’s killing of Thompson is seen as a political murder, much like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, only in this case, the murder was committed to advance a cause that is popular on the Left–socialized medicine.
The New York Post reports on a CNN interview of former New York Times and Washington Post employee Taylor Lorenz, who is a fan of Luigi. What a triumvirate! CNN, Taylor Lorenz, and Luigi Mangione.
Taylor Lorenz heaped praise on accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and slammed the media for criticizing the legion of unhinged youths who consider him a hero or role model.
“It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America — as if we don’t lionize criminals,” the influencer and former reporter for the New York Times and Washington Post told CNN in a bubbly interview.
Bubbly. Do we actually lionize criminals? Murderers, specifically? Yes, occasionally Leftists who commit murder to advance the cause of socialism are applauded. One thinks of Che Guevara, Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rubin Carter, Joanne Chesimard, and others. But their appeal was decidedly niche, and in most cases, their supporters at least pretended to believe that they were innocent. Whereas Luigi Mangione is popular in relatively mainstream circles, despite the fact that no one pretends that he didn’t murder Thompson.
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O’Sullivan asked Lorenz about the media’s typically negative reactions to the fangirls who have shown up in force at his court appearances, and she said she felt their veneration of the accused murderer made perfect sense.
“You’re gonna see women especially that feel like, ‘oh my God, here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person that seems like this morally good man,’ which is hard to find,” Lorenz said as she and CNN correspondent Donnie O’Sullivan laughed gaily.
Morally good men are hard to find? I don’t know. It isn’t difficult to find men who aren’t murderers. The Luigi Mangione phenomenon and the Taylor Lorenz phenomenon are both symptoms of a culture that is sick, perhaps terminally so.
