Brian Thompson was murdered in cold blood last December while walking into a Manhattan hotel. The people who knew and loved him remembered the 50-year-old Thompson as “an incredibly loving, generous, talented man …” To his family and friends, Thompson was so much more than the CEO of UnitedHealthCare. 

He was a Midwesterner, an Iowa guy, “a man who lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives.” He was “an incredibly loving father” to his twin sons. 

He was a human being. 

To many — too many — on the left, Thompson was inhuman, a monster, the face of corporate health insurance greed, representative of the brutality of capitalism, the “oligarchy.” They cheered his murder and celebrated the 27-year-old “sex symbol” accused of revenge-killing the health care exec. 

“This needs to be the new norm. EAT THE RICH.” declared one X user shortly after the murder, according to the New York Times. 

“My only question is did the CEO of United Healthcare die quickly or over several months waiting to find out if his insurance would cover his treatment for the fatal gunshot wound?” another social media poster mocked. 

“Thoughts and deductibles to the family,” commented a CNN reader beneath a video of the shooting. “Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network.”

Police say the words “Deny Defend Depose” were written on shell casings at the scene, an apparent reference to perceived tactics used by health insurance companies to circumvent paying claims and maximize profits. 

Meanwhile, leftists, including former New York Times and Washington Post reporter-turned-“influencer” Taylor Lorenz, openly indulged their political violence “fetish,” crushing all over Thompson’s accused murderer, Luigi Mangione. 

“You’re going to see women, especially, that feel, like, oh my God, here’s this man who’s a 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,” Lorenz dished to CNN Senior Correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, in April. 

It was all sickening to anyone with a working moral compass. And it’s happening once again. 

‘It’s Just Great’

Just minutes after an assassin’s bullet ripped into conservative icon Charlie Kirk during an appearance at Utah Valley University, twisted liberals took to social and corporate media airwaves. The “co-exist” and “tolerance” crowd gloated and rejoiced over Kirk’s violent end, spewing schadenfreude with the glee of children in a candy store. 

An apparently conscienceless woman jumped on TikTok to tell anyone who would listen that “the best part” of the assassination of the co-founder of Turning Point USA is that Kirk is “not martyr material.” 

“So his death will mean nothing,” she opines, smiling smugly. “It will activate no one. It will impact few. It’s just great.”  

Particularly sickening, Columbia University’s student-led satirical newspaper, inaccurately dubbed The Federalist, mocked the passionate gun rights activist with a puerile “story” headlined, “Turning Point USA Undergoes Unexpected Ideological Shift, States Second Amendment Actually Not That Important Anymore.”

‘Expanding Targets’

Political assassination of conservative leaders is more than a big joke to the left. For liberals reveling in Kirk’s murder, political violence is the “the new norm.” 

Reports following Thompson’s murder “analyzed how viral social media narratives were legitimizing political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the United Healthcare CEO’s assassination.” 

“The reports found widespread justification for lethal violence — including assassination — among younger, highly online, and ideologically left-aligned users,” the Network of Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found. 

In short, the digital age is producing a left-driven “assassination culture.”

That culture is being nurtured by the likes of the California liberals who proposed a ballot measure macabrely named “the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act,” The initiative, which would bar health insurers from denying medical care, has since been renamed the California Regulate Insurer’s Delay or Denial of Care Initiative following public backlash. It’s expected to appear on next November’s ballot. 

A study released in April by the NCRI in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, showed a broader “assassination culture” appears to be “emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left, with expanding targets now including figures such as Donald Trump.” 

‘Your Glee Makes You Ugly’

Despite all of the predictable platitudes from Democrats and jelly-backed Republicans about turning down the “political temperature,” many on the left believe political violence is absolutely justifiable as they lose their grip on power. 

“Left-wing authoritarianism, which justifies upending hierarchies, tearing down the established social order, and enforcing strict censorship, has become a major political force,” wrote Max Horder for City Journal in the wake of Kirk’s assassination. “Luigi Mangione became its first totemic hero, and his figure looms large over this most recent act of deadly political violence.”

It’s getting ugly. The laughter from the left makes it all the more so, poker legend Daniel Negreanu thoughtfully posted this week on X. 

“Luigi Mangione was glorified by some as a hero for shooting a father and a husband in cold blood on the street. Some of those same people are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk,” he wrote, advising the dark celebrants to “take a deep look in the mirror and ask yourself how you got to the point where murder makes you giddy.”

“You are celebrating the murder of a father and husband because he said words you didn’t like or agree with. He wasn’t violent. He committed no crimes. He simply engaged those with diverse viewpoints and had open, civil dialogue,” Negreanu chided, adding, “Your glee makes you ugly.”