{"id":2423388,"date":"2025-04-14T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lorenzs-fawning-over-alleged-assassin-normalizes-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:43:33","slug":"lorenzs-fawning-over-alleged-assassin-normalizes-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lorenzs-fawning-over-alleged-assassin-normalizes-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenz\u2019s Fawning Over Alleged Assassin Normalizes Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Florenzs-fawning-over-alleged-assassin-normalizes-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2423388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent episode of CNN&#8217;s *MisinfoNation*, Taylor Lorenz, a self-identified journalist, sparked controversy by defending Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a health care CEO. Lorenz described Mangione as a &#8220;morally good man&#8221; and a &#8220;revolutionary,&#8221; making light of the situation despite the gravity of the crime. Critics have noted that her comments reflect a disturbing trend among some on the left to normalize political violence and minimize the seriousness of such actions. Lorenz suggested that many people idolize figures like Mangione,who challenge established systems,drawing a parallel to the support for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that Lorenz&#8217;s remarks are part of a broader effort to justify political violence, likening these ideologies to Marxist theory, which views violence as acceptable if it serves a revolutionary purpose. It also points to the increased rhetoric from the left that frames violence as a response to perceived threats posed by political opponents, particularly Republicans. Thru examples of political violence and media reactions to these incidents, the piece contends that society has become desensitized to such violence, wiht those on the left sometimes defending perpetrators while condemning their victims. This normalization of violence is seen as damaging to societal morals and stability.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday&rsquo;s episode of CNN&rsquo;s <em>MisinfoNation,<\/em> self-proclaimed &ldquo;journalist&rdquo; Taylor Lorenz played apologist for alleged murderer Luigi Mangione &mdash; who is accused of gunning down a health care CEO in cold blood. Lorenz shamelessly described Mangione as a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-reporter-who-blamed-libs-of-tiktok-for-random-threats-defends-alleged-ceo-murderer-mangione-morally-good-man\/\" title=\"WaPo Reporter Who Blamed Libs of TikTok for Random ... Defends Alleged CEO ... ...gione: &#039;...&#039;\">morally good man&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and a &ldquo;revolutionary,&rdquo; even cracking jokes when addressing criticisms leveled at him.<\/p>\n<p>But there is <em>nothing<\/em> humorous about murder. Lorenz&rsquo;s dismissive attitude is not just tasteless; it&rsquo;s part of a broader, calculated effort by the left to normalize political violence and numb the American public to its rising frequency. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don&rsquo;t lionize criminals, as if we don&rsquo;t have, you know, we don&rsquo;t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows,&rdquo; Lorenz joked. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taylor Lorenz on Luigi Mangione: &ldquo;You&rsquo;re gonna see women especially that feel like, &lsquo;oh my God, here&rsquo;s this man who&rsquo;s a revolutionary, who&rsquo;s famous, who&rsquo;s handsome, who&rsquo;s young, who&rsquo;s smart, he&rsquo;s a person that seems like this morally good man,&rsquo; which is hard to find.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HuXbpnYHol\">pic.twitter.com\/HuXbpnYHol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1911796358303928610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lorenz continued: &ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to see women especially that feel like, Oh my God, right? Like, here&rsquo;s this man, who, who&rsquo;s revolutionary, who&rsquo;s famous, who&rsquo;s handsome, who&rsquo;s young, who&rsquo;s smart. He&rsquo;s a person that seems &hellip; like this morally good man, which is hard to find.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz even likened the fandom around Mangione to that surrounding President Donald Trump: &ldquo;They want somebody to take on this system. &hellip; They want someone to tear down these barbaric establishment institutions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a &ldquo;barbaric establishment institution.&rdquo; He was the father of two, he was someone&rsquo;s son, and he was the victim of a murder. But that matters naught to Lorenz, who previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/why-the-fck-are-you-laughing-piers-morgan-snaps-after-taylor-lorenz-says-she-felt-joy-at-ceos-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went viral<\/a> after she said she felt &ldquo;joy&rdquo; when learning of Thompson&rsquo;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>But the left seeks to make political violence acceptable. It&rsquo;s classic Marxist theory, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/27\/trump-assassination-attempts-are-the-logical-result-of-the-lefts-marxist-oppression-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained in these pages<\/a> by J.T. Young.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Marxism &hellip; sees all human history as a sequence of conflicts between classes,&rdquo; Young explained. &ldquo;The classic leftist view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assassination-attempts-are-the-logical-result-of-lefts-narrative\/\" title=\"Assassination Attempts Are The Logical Result Of ...&#039;s Narrative\">makes violence acceptable<\/a> when wielded in pursuit of what the left sees as the inevitable revolution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Calling Mangione a &ldquo;revolutionary&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t a slip-up by Lorenz. It&rsquo;s an effort to make political violence acceptable &mdash; so long as it can be used to force the left&rsquo;s desired outcome. <\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the near assassination of Congressman Steve Scalise by a cold-blooded, deranged Bernie Sanders supporter in 2017. Charles M. Blow for The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/15\/opinion\/virginia-baseball-shooting-anti-trump.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that violence was horrid, but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This country has a violent culture, is full of guns, and our federal lawmakers &mdash; mostly Republicans, it must be said, because there isn&rsquo;t any real equivalency &mdash; are loath to even moderately regulate gun access,&rdquo; Blow wrote, later even adding that &ldquo;some rhetoric is necessary and real&rdquo; such that &ldquo;Trump and the Republican-led Congress are attempting to do very serious harm to the country and its most vulnerable citizens.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, political violence is bad &mdash; <em>but<\/em> Republicans are worse. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the type of incendiary language that can only be described &mdash; as pointed out by The Federalist co-founder and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1732931279421579321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Davis<\/a> &mdash; as &ldquo;assassination prep by the corrupt regime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Such language is &ldquo;an obvious information operation meant to justify and even incite the most extreme measures, up to and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-spent-years-running-an-assassination-prep-campaign\/\" title=\"The ... Spent Years Running An &#039;Assassination Prep&#039; Campaign\">including unconscionable violence<\/a>,&rdquo; Davis explained. <\/p>\n<p>Since the 2017 Sanders supporter shooting, the left-wing apparatus writ-large has only increased its use of the type of commentary Blow used to malign Trump and Republicans as threats to the country. As I previously reported, The Washington Post&rsquo;s Opinion Editor-At-Large Robert Kagan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/11\/30\/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 2023 that a &ldquo;Trump dictatorship&rdquo; was &ldquo;increasingly inevitable&rdquo; and that &ldquo;barring some miracle, Trump will soon be the presumptive Republican nominee for president.&rdquo; Kagan spent the article likening Trump and his supports to Hitler and Nazi Germany before posing the ominous question: &ldquo;Can Trump win the election? The answer, unless something radical and unforeseen happens, is: Of course he can.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic&rsquo;s Ron Brownstein&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1733868292975022370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Trump&rsquo;s second term &ldquo;could create the greatest threat to the nation&rsquo;s cohesion since the Civil War&rdquo; while The Hill&rsquo;s opinion contributor Jacob Ware&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/4411720-assassination-attempts-are-on-the-rise-worldwide-is-the-us-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried<\/a>&nbsp;to blame Trump for potential political violence in a January 2024 piece warning that &ldquo;assassination attempts are on the rise worldwide &mdash; is the US next?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So when Trump was nearly murdered during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, the near-assassination was described by the propaganda press as merely an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/13\/early-media-reports-call-trump-bleeding-after-he-was-shot-an-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incident<\/a>&rdquo; or &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/major-media-outlets-refuse-to-call-attack-on-trumps-life-an-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shooting<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the real political violence was easy, though, because the left-wing apparatus <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/the-left-spent-years-running-an-assassination-prep-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spent years cushioning the blow<\/a> and desensitizing Americans to political violence by trying to justify it. They laid the groundwork to justify such violence. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, hours after Trump was nearly assassinated a <em>second time,<\/em> the attempt was excused by members of the propaganda press who linked Trump to unsubstantiated bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself,&rdquo; NBC News&rsquo; Lester Holt&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/alleged-trump-attacker-praised-nbcs-lester-holt-who-blamed-trump-for-attempt-on-his-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-donald-trump-did-not-win-every-state-except-new-york-in-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: No, Donald Trump Did Not Win Every State Except New York In The 2020 Election\">make baseless claims<\/a> about Haitian immigrants in [Springfield,] Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News&rsquo; Norah O&rsquo;Donnell made <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1835833050120196219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similar comments<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/17\/bomb-threats-used-by-media-to-excuse-second-trump-assassination-attempt-have-no-validity-at-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several other members<\/a> of the legacy media. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[READNEXT:[READNEXT:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/15\/democrats-did-the-opposite-of-lower-the-temperature-between-trump-assassination-attempts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats Did The Opposite Of &lsquo;Lower The Temperature&rsquo; Between Trump Assassination Attempt<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As it would turn out, all <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/16\/us-news\/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-says-springfield-bomb-threats-are-hoaxes-coming-from-overseas-one-particular-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">33 bomb threats<\/a> were hoaxes. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">left-wing propagandists didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t care to wait for the facts. Instead they exploited a moment of fear to demonize and blame their political enemy No. 1: Trump. It was an attempt to excuse the potential assassination by victim blaming. <\/p>\n<p>And so, when Thompson was gunned down in cold blood that Dec. 4 morning, it wasn&rsquo;t shocking to hear so many on the left &ldquo;but &hellip;&rdquo; their way through a defense of Mangione because Americans had become rather desensitized to political violence <em>because<\/em> of how it has been normalized.<\/p>\n<p>When the propaganda press treats murderers like martyrs and conservatives like villains, it doesn&rsquo;t just warp public discourse &mdash; it erodes the very moral fabric that keeps a society civil and encourages more political violence. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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