From Luigi Mangione to Ryan Routh to Tyler Robinson, it is clear that the Marxist left is rapidly becoming not merely a death cult, but an assassination cult.
Ryan Routh, the would-be Donald Trump assassin, echoed leftist rhetoric in smearing his target, gibbering, “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose.” Many Democrats then expressed disappointment that he had failed to kill Trump. Luigi Mangione killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson because he was angry at what he considered the greed of insurance companies, and he was hailed with wild hysteria by many leftists as a hero. Tyler Robinson is accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk merely for expressing opinions in conflict with his own, and thousands of ghoulish swamp creatures crawled out of the muck to celebrate on social media.
And then, of course, many of those anti-Kirk fanatics were not content with dancing on the grave of a young father. They also had to call for the next round of assassinations:
URGENT. FYI.
— Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙♀️🦉🐈⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) September 11, 2025
After Charlie Kirk, on the sky app there are people asking for the next person to be targeted. These include JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo.
I took as many screenshots as I could. pic.twitter.com/CnZmmJAjvh
Insanely, a judge just dropped terrorism charges against Mangione because he said the killer wanted to call attention to insurance greed with his act. He asserted that Mangione was not a terrorist, but (presumably) a sort of activist. Apparently using murder as a way to get attention is not terrorism? What kind of logic is that? The logic of the assassination cult, where any and every act of violence is justified because the ends justify the means. Just look at the joy below:
Manhattan — Leftists celebrate after a New York state judge dismissed two murder charges related to acts of terrorism against Luigi Mangione. Mangione allegedly assassinated a UnitedHealthcare CEO in furtherance of leftist politics. pic.twitter.com/9q8UZkJMKQ
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 16, 2025
Related: Utah Attorney Reveals Why Robinson Killed Kirk in Shooter’s Own Words
There are certain features of this assassination cult. First of all, it is founded on the assumption that the death of a person with whom one disagrees is in and of itself wonderful and admirable. Thus the leftists do not ask whether killing a person like Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump or Brian Thompson will accomplish anything, will make anything better, or will improve the life of anyone else. The idea is to be excited about the death itself, regardless of consequences. No one has cheaper insurance because Thompson is dead, and no one is better off or safer because Kirk is dead. But that doesn’t matter, because the killing is the goal.
Second of all, the killing is considered admirable because the person who was killed is seen as a representative of a group or philosophy that leftists hate. There is no acknowledgment that the person targeted might be an individual, that he is human. No, the target is demonized and dehumanized and treated as a scapegoat on which the leftists lay all the “sins” of the person’s “group.”
This of course, is simply an adaptation of the Marxist class war. Democrats have always had a tendency toward group think, which is what made them so ready to accept Marxism. Now they never speak in terms of individuals; they only speak in terms of race, sex, class, or group.
And in true Marxist fashion they also insist on having totally different standards and definitions for their actions and words than for their opponents’ actions and words. So words are violence when conservatives are speaking them, but violence is “free speech” when leftists are committing the violence. And simply disagreeing with someone is a crime worthy of death if you are conservative, but the Democrats are not to be blamed for inciting violence, no matter what they accuse another person of doing. The Democrats are always the tolerant and compassionate ones, even when they are putting bullets through people’s skulls and screaming with joy as they do it.
Or, as George Orwell would put it, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
