Before we even knew about the UnitedHealthcare targeted assassination Brian Thompson, CEO by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, much leftists justifiedcelebrating and rationalizing the shooting.

There is a a real debate is underway in some circles on the progressive left, on the question of whether killing CEOs is a bad thing.

And that’s not surprising.

Of course, if MAGA professors or journalists publicly defended the killing of perceived political enemies online, thousands of hands would be wringing bemoaning conservatism’s threatening rhetoric.

And rightly so.

But the haphazard demonization of the health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and big oil is now the norm.

A generation of students has been indoctrinated to believe that the pursuit of profit kills people when the opposite is true.

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And there is a clear ideological continuum between those who rationalize firing a CEO And justify the murder and rape of Jews by Palestinian terrorists And rationalize the burning of cities in the name of “social justice”.

Much of Mangione’s writing is expected to be indistinguishable from what one hears from progressive elected officials and pundits.

Yet few will wonder why a seemingly rational, Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hitman.

Instead, the public is continually warned that white supremacists are gathering in the shadows, preparing to launch their coup.

What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

• Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot dead on Wednesday outside a luxury Midtown hotel in a “brazen and targeted attack,” police said.
• Thompson was named CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives of the company under investigation by the Ministry of Justice.
• Thompson’s wife, Paulette, told him my husband had received threats before he was killed.
• Thompson’s shooting sparked overwhelming support online and even sparked a tasteless lookalike contest in New York.
• A person of interest was arrested by police at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
• THE the suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, from Towson, Maryland. He graduated from the Ivy League and hated the medical community.

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This so-called “major civil unrest” looming in 2023 was so dangerous that the Justice Department created a new category of extremists to “track and counter” “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism.”

When the BLM riots enveloped the country, causing billions in damage and destroying thousands of lives, it was difficult for anyone in the media to admit that it was happening.

On the left, parents who protest school boards over critical race theory and mask mandates are “domestic terrorists,” but people burning down cities are “mostly peaceful.”

The left has been prone to violence since year zero.

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In the early 1900s, the United States was awash in communist and anarchist bombings, culminating in the deaths of 30 people on Wall Street in 1920.

Most cultural depictions of the upheavals of the 1960s were of a genteel, peace-loving movement, but it was also steeped in extremists.

In the 1970s, left-wing terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground detonated bombs on the Capitol, police stations, the Pentagon and state attorneys general’s offices.

Over an 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, there were an incredible 2,500 bombings in the United States carried out by left-wing groups.

Worse still, then as now, violence was often ignored or idealized by the “intellectual” left.

When I was young, so-called socialists commemorated mass murderers like Che Guevara or Mao Zedong on T-shirts.

Today, noted contemporary public intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates write bestselling books celebrating terrorism.

The late Kathy Boudin, a former member of the Weather Underground involved in the Brinks truck robbery that killed two innocent people, led Columbia University’s “Center for Justice” for decades.

And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Angela Davis, widely considered a hero among young progressives, who not only defended murders and terrorist regimes throughout her career, but also purchased two weapons used in of a kidnapping and courtroom shooting carried out by the Black Panthers in 2007. 1970, when three hostages and a superior court judge were killed in Marin County, California.

There is simply no comparable integration of right-wing extremists.

It was James Hodgkinson who walked onto an Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field in 2018 and opened fire on a Republican congressional delegation.

He was a Bernie Sanders fan.

Certainly, no journalist ran into the corridors of Congress to ask each Democratic elected official if he was going to lower the rhetorical temperature.

Nor did they when a left-wing assassin showed up at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, promising to “stop Roe V Wade from being overturned” by “shooting three” justices.

After years of hearing the demonization of the Supreme Court, man arrived with a Glockzip ties, duct tape and various other tools.

When Paul Pelosi was attacked by a deranged man, the all the media conversation revolved around conservative rhetoric.

When we had two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, most of the left could I can barely stop calling him Hitler.

None of this is intended to maintain that there is no right-wing violence.

Of course there are.

It simply means that we should recognize that much of our contemporary political violence emanates from the left.

And much of this is due to the far-left progressive turn in mainstream American politics.

David Harsanyi is a senior editor at the Washington Examiner. Twitter @davidharsanyi