BTRTN: "Deny, Delay, Depose"... Trump, Guns, Retribution, and the Coming Age of the American Vigilante
Born To Run The Numbers asks: Is Luigi Mangione a vigilante hero, or a despicable villain? Is he a one-off, or the prototype for a new era of vigilantism? A deranged aberration, or the logical conclusion of Trump’s relentless campaign to undermine the rule of law?
https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2024/12/11/btrtn-deny-delay-depose-trump-guns-retribution-and-the-coming-age-of-the-american-vigilante/
Excerpts: "To read the posts and memes, you’d think it was an old-fashioned tale of the underdog slaying Goliath. The cool dude who lowers his mask just long enough to flash a rakish grin at the woman behind the counter, and who eludes a manhunt for days. He’s the masked avenger of corporate greed. For six days, a shocking percentage of America was rooting for the murderer...
"...the victim was not only the CEO of the largest health insurance company (bad enough), but that he was under investigation for lining his own pockets through insider trading. To the social media proletariat, he therefore simultaneously symbolized both the corrupt, soulless corporations that enhance profits by turning down coverage to indigent mothers, lonely widows, and starving toddlers, and also the obscenely rich executives in Bernie Sanders’ one percent… a scourge of Scrooges who screw the downtrodden...
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Mangione) sought revenge. He delivered retribution. Where have we heard that language before? Trump is the champion of lawlessness in a country founded on the rule of law. He is a convicted felon who does not pay taxes. He steals documents, leads an insurrection, but never is held accountable. Trump is patient zero in the epidemic erosion in our societal faith in the rule of law...
"Given the inability of our justice system to hold Trump accountable for criminal activity, and Trump’s relentless campaign to undermine popular faith in our justice system, it’s hardly a mystery why an angry young man might conclude that he cannot count on our institutions to mete out justice. And why a mentally unbalanced one might feel the need to act..."
"Corporate greed. A lawless President. An applauding peanut gallery. 400 million guns.We should fear a new era of vigilantism… an age when angry, frustrated, disenfranchised people feel empowered to believe that their only recourse is violent retribution.."
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