by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old who (allegedly) gunned down CEO Brian Thompson, is a watershed figure, a would-be Unabomber who was both less – and more. I fear we’ll see more like him.
(FIRST OF TWO PARTS)
Luigi Mangione was arrested only yesterday.
But we already know a lot about Mangione, the 26-year-old Marylander who allegedly shot healthcare executive Brian Thompson dead in Manhattan last week1.
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Mangione is privileged, successful, and bright, the notably handsome scion of wealthy Maryland family. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, he decamped for California and Hawaii, supporting himself as a coder.
In other words, at least from the outside, Mangione had every advantage.
Then something went wrong. And Mangione (again, allegedly) covered his face with a mask and executed a 50-year-old father of two on a New York street. Police arrested Mangione Monday in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a long way from the Hawaii penthouse he called home in 2022.
The crime is inexplicable.
Progressives have called Thompson’s killing motivated, if not outright justified, by the failures of American healthcare and the greed of the insurance industry. (On Sunday, I called out the New Yorker for its ugly take, which included this explicit moral equivalence: Thompson’s murder is one symptom of the American appetite for violence; his line of work is another.)
But, his looks notwithstanding, Mangione has turned out to be a singularly unattractive messenger for the argument that health insurers are behind America’s medical crisis – much less the leftist fantasy that insurance company executives should die for the industry’s sins.
Progressives hoped (yes, hoped) Thompson’s assassin would turn out to be a poor blue-collar worker with a kid who died after being denied chemotherapy.
Instead they got an Ivy League graduate who went to a fancy private high school, hurt his back in Hawaii, and had the finest, or at least most expensive, care available, spinal fusion surgery. The surgery seems to have worked about as well as back surgery generally does – somewhere between kinda and not really.
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