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The United States is finally coming together. And all it took was….a jacked Ivy League grad named Luigi to allegedly shoot a healthcare CEO.
After all, since United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in the Manhattan streets, it hasn’t been a partisan issue. Young people on both sides have united in support.
Scrolling through comments, refreshing social feeds, and observing the online discourse, the level of vitriol toward this dead man and his employer has shocked many. Among millions of people, particularly young ones, it’s a borderline pre-French Revolution, “get-the-guillotines-ready” energy.
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To do the analysis of why, we’ll answer three questions: Who’s the killer and what does he believe? Why do people hate United so much? And why is the murder being celebrated by people on both left and right?
Let’s start with the reaction.
The rest of our deep dive explains why United became the country’s most profitable insurer, what Luigi’s social following says about his beliefs, and why young people are celebrating a killing. You can sign up for a free trial at the button below. Once you do, you can access all our premium articles here. Thank you for supporting our mission!
Tim Dillon – a comedian and news-focused podcaster with a young audience in the millions – said on his latest episode, “[Healthcare] CEOs right now are terrified. They are absolutely terrified...This will not be the end of this. I believe this is a harbinger of things to come. Vigilante justice – and I’m not saying it’s justice – I’m saying: People feeling that voting doesn’t work. People feeling that the democratic process does not serve them. People feeling that they are powerless, yet they have access to weapons. Many of them are mentally unwell. They’re going to go after people.”
And that’s exactly what many people in today’s America seem to want.
Editor’s Note
But why is healthcare so expensive? Is it Big Health’s, Big Pharma’s, or Big Gov’s fault? We’ll dig into that in our next deep-dive story. Thanks for reading, and see you later this week.
–Max and Max
RocaNews co-founders
