The Left’s embrace of an assassination in the name of equality shows how much contempt it has for success.
The recent creation of a defense fund for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shines light on an uncomfortable truth that much of American society has a violent disdain for businessmen, and many hold that anyone and anything tied to wealth or business success is an inherent evil.
This hostility toward the rich, particularly in younger generations, is concerning. It causes people to jump to extremes, like celebrating an assassin just because his victim was a millionaire.
As a member of Gen Z, I watched the Mangione contagion spread through my peers on the internet and at school. Shockingly, people posted anthem videos and praises for Mangione, the killer, characterizing him as a tragic hero standing up…