The most talked about news story from the past few days has been how a man named Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO and father of two Brian Thompson. Most normal people were horrified at this act of violence, saddened that two young men would go through life without their father. We wondered who could do such a thing and why. But a fringe segment of the population with little regard for human life decided that Mangione was a hero and some even called for the murder of other corporate executives.
I'm having a really hard time deciding into which category Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) fits.
Warren appeared on MSNBC with Joy Reid earlier this week to talk about the topic, and what she said was a bit disturbing.
What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. And look...violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial, who has 'allegedly' killed the CEO of UnitedHealth... but you can only push people so far, and then, they start to take matters into their own hands.
Whoa. Remember when the House January 6 committee submitted its final report, and Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson wrote that "Donald Trump lit that fire"? It almost sounds to me like someone needs to call the fire department because Warren is lighting one of her own.
How many people are going to hear what she said and take it as a go-ahead to do something violent? Also, some might argue that people were pushed so far, and that's why they took matters into their own hands on January 6. Did Warren defend them in this way? No, she called the whole thing a "threat to our democracy."
I will say that Warren walked her statement back the next day, stating that "Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder." But did she really mean that?
National Review had an especially impactful piece called "Elizabeth Warren Is a Disaster for the Democrats." The article contrasts Warren's words — which author Charles C. W. Cooke calls a "justification" — with those of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has proven himself lately to be, dare I say, a Democrat with some common sense. Fetterman said of Mangione and his supporters:
He’s the a**hole that’s going to die in prison. A sewer is going to sewer: that’s what social media is about. I don’t know why the media wants to turn that into a story, just with these trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously like that. Remember, he has two children that are going to grow up without their father. It’s vile. And if you’ve gunned someone down that you don’t happen to agree with their views or the business that they’re in, hey, you know, I’m next, they’re next, he’s next, she’s next.
The problem is that any criticism or backlash Warren has faced for making these statements has come from, well, National Review. I haven't specifically heard from any of her colleagues in D.C. And the liberal media seems too fixated on her opposition to Trump's cabinet nominees to notice. Her own tribe will not condemn her. But that's what they do when it comes to their own. It's like they're afraid to admit that there is any nuance within their party. Contrast that with the current GOP as of late, and the difference is stark, but that's an article for another day.
And it's not just Warren. There was a lot of talk about heated political rhetoric during this past election cycle, especially from the mouths of Democrats. Joe Biden stood up and told the country to "bring down the temperature" just after Election Day. Where was he when his own Vice President and presidential nominee was on CNN calling Trump a "fascist" or calling him a "danger" to our democracy during a campaign rally?
Many members of the liberal media even went as far as to imply that Trump's own words led to his assassination attempts, just as they tried to accuse him of "inciting an insurrection" on January 6. We've known it for a long time, but it's never been more abundantly clear than now: The Democrats are the party of "do as I say, not as I do." And I, for one, am sick of it.
Warren herself has a history of this sort of double talk. For example, earlier this year, she appeared on "The View" and responded to the Trump assassination attempt by stating that we resolve our problems at the ballot box, not with violence. But — and there's always a but with her— when one of the hosts asked her a question about cooling down the way we talk about politics, Warren's response was to say that if Trump and JD Vance are elected, "100%" of women won't have access to abortions or even have healthcare or IVF. All of which is false.
After her little monologue, she went on to say that she didn't believe talking about the issues was "tweaking up the rhetoric." Only she wasn't talking about the issues; she was lying and using scare tactics to demonize Trump and Vance.
After the election, she filmed herself talking about how Trump won and "the consequences will be real and devastating" and posted it on YouTube. Once again, maybe Warren needs to look to her colleague Fetterman for inspiration on how to handle an election loss.
There are more examples, but you'll have to search for them yourselves because I just don't have the energy to sit through more interviews with the senator from Massachusetts. It will raise your blood pressure. She actually reminds me of an old coworker of mine who was always preaching about positivity and peace in this condescending sing-song voice, but if you actually paid attention to what she was saying, she was trying to manipulate people into doing this and that.
And she's exactly the type of politician that the left tries to make Donald Trump out to be. She's the one who sits on her throne and pits people against each other and tells her constituents she knows what's best for them. I'm not sure what makes a person that way.
In Warren's case, maybe she is suffering from some kind of generational trauma, PTSD from when the white men came from Europe and drove her family from their land? Who knows? But what I do know is that if more people "start to take matters into their own hands," she may have blood on hers if she doesn't choose her words more carefully next time.
