ALEX BERENSON--AN ASSASSIN FOR OUR TIME (PART ONE)

FROM THE GREAT ALEX BERENSON'S SUBSTACK. Berenson's book Pandemia, helped your editor through the Covid insanity---now he turns his attention here---and brilliantly---NOTE the number of upvotes---and it has only been up a few hours:

An assassin for our time (PART ONE)

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.

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. MORE AT https://substack.com/home/post/p-152914243