A certain generation may recall all those students who sported Che Guevara T-shirts in college. Most of them likely had no idea that those shirts represented a mass murderer; they only knew that Che was a symbol for the anti-establishment. Well, this lionization of murderers has hit a new low on the Left, this time concerning “alleged” assassin Luigi Mangione.
CNN just aired an interview between disgraced reporter Taylor Lorenz and correspondent Donie O’Sullivan wherein they discuss Mangione and the women who support him. Here was the segment that went viral:
Independent journalist @TaylorLorenz on what media is getting wrong about Luigi Mangione fans.
Tonight on MisinfoNation: Extreme American 8p ET and PT on @CNN https://t.co/gMKMhdRmnr pic.twitter.com/JZJAJSMcnh
— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) April 13, 2025
The clip begins with Lorenz chastising:
It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America. As if we don’t lionize criminals. As if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts. And we can give them Netflix shows. There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles that certain mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.
This is already starting off badly. Lorenz is accusing millionaire media pundits of pearl-clutching because people are fans of Mangione.
(Sidebar: This author is in her mid-30s and had to look up what “stanning” was in contemporary slang. It apparently means being a dedicated fan. Lorenz is 41 and using Gen Z colloquial language on television. But I digress.)
They are allowed to clutch pearls; the crime was brazen, brutal, and horrific. The victim’s name was Brian Thompson. He was a husband and father simply doing his job as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and he was executed because health insurance is all screwed up.
It’s more than disturbing that Mangione has a dedicated fan base among the radical Left. Lorenz is included in this group, by the way. Back in December, mere days after the murder, Lorenz told Piers Morgan that she felt “joy” when she heard about the assassination. She was later forced to backtrack when Morgan called her out on her ghoulishness.
O’Sullivan then asked Lorenz about the women outside the New York courthouse showering Mangione with support and disturbingly worshipful behavior. Lorenz justifies this behavior by saying:
You’re going to see women, especially, that feel like, “Oh, my God, here’s this man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person who seems like a morally good man, which is hard to find.”
Calling an accused assassin who plotted the cold-blooded killing of another individual a “morally good man” is absolutely insane. But is it surprising coming from Lorenz? Absolutely not.
Lorenz is famous for doxing innocent private individuals, wearing her COVID mask (even outside), and being too woke for even The Washington Post. Anyone who views her as a paragon of virtue is as off their rocker as she is. This is underlined by the fact that she made a joke about Mangione being one of those hard-to-find “morally good” men. This is gross and a sad commentary on Lorenz as a human.
The last part of the clip shows O’Sullivan likening being a Trump supporter to being a Mangione supporter, to which Lorenz responds:
I totally agree. They want somebody to take on this system. They want someone to tear down these barbaric establishment institutions.
Columnist Daniel McCarthy shoots down this particular line of reasoning, writing, “Brian Thompson wasn’t an institution; he was a man whose slaughter hasn’t changed anything.”
McCarthy also dismisses O’Sullivan’s premise that Trump supporters and Mangione fans are morally equivalent in any way, shape, or form. Trump supporters used the 2024 election to make their voices heard. Mangione made his voice heard by murdering Brian Thompson because he was the CEO of an insurance company, and it changed nothing. Insurance is still the same. Thompson’s family is forever broken because of his heinous actions.
On a wider scope, this is how leftists are choosing to handle their political frustrations. They would rather call Trump a “fascist” and a “Nazi” and incite unhinged individuals to attempt to assassinate him rather than actually try to talk to him. They would rather throw Molotov cocktails at Tesla dealerships or vandalize Tesla owners’ vehicles because they are “taking on the institutions.” Their tantrums have changed zero sane minds.
It could also be argued that Trump supporters don’t want to tear down the institutions; they want to repair and rebuild them and make them work better for the American people. Mangione and his leftist radicals are thirsty for bloodshed and violence because they can’t tear down these “barbaric” establishment institutions by legal or peaceful means. Their ideas are garbage, and if they can’t win over voters, then they can at least scare enough people to destabilize the nation.
The radicals on the Left are more than happy to dehumanize individuals in the name of “tearing down the institutions” and “speaking truth to power.” We see it over and over again, from Che T-shirts on campus to depicting an assassin as a saint. There is something deeply wrong within the Democrat psyche when they can twist morality so much as to be able to call evil good and good evil.
