In the wake of Thompson's violent death, a seeming 21st-century analog to the propaganda of the deed favored by some late 19th- and early 20th-century anarchist assassins, we have a clear example of this representation.
The extreme view that the health insurance pigs had it coming is out there percolating in online spaces for everyone to see, while the less extreme but still manifestly illiberal conceit that murder is wrong, but public enthusiasm for the murder of an executive in a deplorable industry reflects the understandable anger of people pushed too far has been taken up by mainstream politicians.
Turning the American health insurance industry into a special policy villain... reflects a fundamental misreading of the developed world's health care experience.
Ocasio-Cortez said she was not justifying acts of violence, and Warren subsequently supplemented her people can be pushed only so far warning with the addendum.
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