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the economist. We have seen how some people on social media have glorified Brian Thompson's murder.

There has been an avalanche of comments supporting it.

Last week, a former Washington Post reporter said, quote,

people wonder why we want these executives dead.

And just the last 24-hour social media users have seized on the suspect's appearance.

It's yet another sign of the toxicity of the public discourse in the

U.S. All of it driven by the Democrat Party and the American left 100% of it, demonizing CEOs,

demonizing the health insurance industry, demonizing the health care industry. This is the result.

And now they want to date the killer.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

But da-da-da-da-da.

Man O Manashevitz, I am telling you.

And they're so crazy, the left, the Democrat Party, they love death more than we love not life, as you know.

But in the case of the CEO being murdered, they hold the CEO in contempt.

And Luigi Mangillon, they want to, I'll just say go on vacation with.

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