There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that happens when the facts of a story refuse to cooperate with the story you have already decided to tell, and I think we are watching that dissonance play out in real time with Luigi Mangione, because the more that actually comes out about who this guyContinue reading “The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About”
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Rich on Rich Violence: The Uncomfortable Class Math Nobody Wants to Do
I keep coming back to a phrase, half joking, half not, that I think actually captures something true about the entire Luigi Mangione saga better than most of the earnest political commentary surrounding it, and that phrase is rich on rich violence. I say it with a little bit of a smirk because it soundsContinue reading “Rich on Rich Violence: The Uncomfortable Class Math Nobody Wants to Do”