{"id":2605737,"date":"2026-05-22T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-assassination-cult-welcomes-the-fangirls-of-accused-killer-luigi-mangione\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:52:51","slug":"the-lefts-assassination-cult-welcomes-the-fangirls-of-accused-killer-luigi-mangione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-assassination-cult-welcomes-the-fangirls-of-accused-killer-luigi-mangione\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s Assassination Cult Welcomes The &#8216;Mangionistas&#8217;"},"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%2Fthe-lefts-assassination-cult-welcomes-the-fangirls-of-accused-killer-luigi-mangione%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=2605737&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>The passage argues that political violence adn admiration of violent criminals have re-emerged on the far left, framing Charles Manson\u2019s murders as an early example and drawing parallels to modern events. It claims Manson used charisma and drugs to manipulate followers into the 1969 Tate-labianca killings, noting reported shock at how some left-wing figures allegedly celebrated the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The piece then highlights Weather Underground figures-especially Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers-portraying them as radicals who carried out attacks, received comparatively light consequences, and later built academic careers. It states that the \u201cleft\u2019s lust for political violence\u201d has intensified in the trump era.<\/p>\n<p>From there, it shifts to a contemporary case involving alleged fans of Luigi Mangione (\u201cMangionistas\u201d) who, the article says, received NYC press passes and publicly celebrated a CEO killing in late 2024. It quotes statements attributed to these individuals that express anger toward Brian Thompson and approval of his death. The author links the group to political connections through Mayor Zohran Mamdani and describes broader networks involving donors and related organizations.<\/p>\n<p>the passage discusses a \u201ccampus cult\u201d narrative-suggesting universities and political movements indoctrinate students toward radicalism-and claims the mangione fan base reflects that pattern, ending with the author\u2019s insinuation that Manson would be amused by today\u2019s ideological celebrity of violence.  <\/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>History is filled with false prophets and their faithful followers, but none quite like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/20\/us\/charles-manson-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles Manson<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/crime\/a64944620\/manson-family-members-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfamily.<\/a>\u201d The madman who psychotically identified as a rockstar messiah was the wicked ring leader of a murderous cult that, in 1969, cut a gaping hole into the facade of the free love and peace \u201860s.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1937349_1937350_1937412,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tate-LaBianca murders<\/a> were brutal by any standard. Manson, with his sociopathic charisma and a ready supply of hard drugs, convinced the young women of his commune to be the violent instruments of his t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/charles-manson-helter-skelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wisted race war prophesy<\/a>. They viciously killed actress <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sharon-tate-death-everything-to-know-11787492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sharon Tate <\/a>and her unborn baby and four guests at her Los Angeles estate in the shadow of Beverly Hills. A day later, the \u201cfamily\u201d murdered a wealthy couple, <a href=\"https:\/\/enewspaper.latimes.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=2f7bec33-3e8d-4fc2-8042-9359f17cb964&#038;subject=Remembering%20Manson's%20victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leno and Rosemary LaBianca,<\/a> in their Los Angeles home. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most shocking is how much Manson\u2019s assassins relished their macabre work \u2014 and how the radical left celebrated it. <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/yogiberramuseum.org\/about-yogi\/yogisms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yogi Berra <\/a>liked to say, when it comes to the far-left, it\u2019s deja vu all over again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim\u2019s stomach. Wild!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.fbi.gov\/item?type=image&#038;id=7440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bernardine Dohrn<\/a>, a leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/history\/cases-and-criminals\/weather-underground-bombings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weather Underground,<\/a> the Marxist militant\/terrorist successor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebsco.com\/research-starters\/politics-and-government\/students-democratic-society-sds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)<\/a>, reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/11\/22\/magazine\/the-seeds-of-terror.html\">said<\/a> at the time of the Manson family murders. Dohrn, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/343\/000132944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csmart cheerleader\u201d<\/a> from a wealthy Milwaukee suburb before joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >government building-bombing radical movement<\/a>, spent 11 years as a fugitive, a few of those on the <a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.fbi.gov\/item?type=image&#038;id=7440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI\u2019s 10 Most Wanted list,<\/a> NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/18\/nx-s1-5823595\/zayd-ayers-dohrn-dangerous-dirty-violent-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported.<\/a> She and her foot soldiers had <a href=\"https:\/\/socialhistoryportal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/raf\/0419700521.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared war<\/a> on the United States of America. <\/p>\n<p>Dohrn and husband <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/11\/the-left-has-never-been-held-accountable-for-political-violence-and-that-must-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Ayers,<\/a> would later turn themselves in, serve very little time in prison (or none at all), and enjoyed long academic careers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. And they became big boosters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cain-why-isnt-the-media-going-after-obama-about-bill-ayers-2011-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Hussein Obama<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Weather Underground is back with a vengeance \u2014 at least in spirit. And the left\u2019s lust for political violence, its hero-worship of assassins, has exploded in the Trump era \u2014 as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/17\/stop-asking-me-to-unify-with-the-violent-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> can attest to.<\/p>\n<h2>Meet \u2018The Mangionistas\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>As alleged cold-blooded killer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/judge-allows-gun-and-notebook-as-evidence-in-luigi-mangione-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luigi Mangione<\/a> appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, three of his biggest groupies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/mangione-press-corps-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccovered\u201d<\/a> the hearing. Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dma.ucla.edu\/people\/lena-nw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lena Weissbrot<\/a>, the self-styled \u201cMangionistas\u201d incredibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/05\/20\/luigi-mangione-fans-who-praised-ceo-death-shouldnt-have-gotten-nyc-press-passes-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received press passes<\/a> from the office of their good Marxist friend, New York Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/30\/mamdanis-rise-signals-the-islamic-revolution-remaking-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zohran Mamdani.<\/a> <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>These three \u2018Mangionistas\u2019\u2014Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas &#038; Lena Weissbrot\u2014are NOT journalists. They\u2019re ghoulish murder Mangione groupies who scored NYC press passes to cheer an accused assassin who shot a man in the back. They don\u2019t claim innocence\u2014they celebrate the killing.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pYfA1Z3IQv\">pic.twitter.com\/pYfA1Z3IQv<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geraldposner\/status\/2056723162193174699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The fangirls used their coveted press access to justify homicide for the good of their political cause and to celebrate the December 2024 murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgpl2qn7l5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brian Thompson<\/a>, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cF\u2014 Brian Thompson, I don\u2019t give a flying f\u2014 he died,\u201d Rojas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYiEsVvAIoV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the New York Daily News in a now-viral video. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis children are better off without him,\u201d Weissbrot heartlessly told reporters outside the court. \u201cThey need to learn to not be like their dad \u2014 and enjoy the blood money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Rios zealously served in the volunteer campaign cult for Mamdani known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMdLjOiM6TC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHot Girls for Zohran.<\/a>\u201d The influencer and model works as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-l-a-county-health-official-caught-dancing-after-telling-business-to-close-owner-says\/\" title=\"WATCH: L.A. County Health Official Caught Dancing After Telling Business To Close, Owner Says\">social media manager<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alidesignconsulting.com\">Ali Design &#038; Consulting Services <\/a>in New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abril-rios-5918b5176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> her LinkedIn account. The leftist digital marketing firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alidesignconsulting.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boasts<\/a> that it has \u201ca passion for justice, equity, and inclusion.\u201d Its clients include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/unity-justice-fund\/C00881011\/summary\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unity &#038; Justice Fund,<\/a> which contributed $100,000 to Mamdani\u2019s super PAC, according to the California Globe. The Unity &#038; Justice Fund is the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/cair-quietly-puts-100k-behind-zohran-mamdanis-bid-for-nyc-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political fundraising arm<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/4097\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),<\/a> a nonprofit organization with alleged ties to Hamas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/council-on-american-islamic-relations-cair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> InfluenceWatch.<\/p>\n<p>Rios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickywardinvestigates.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> reporter Vicky Ward last November following Mamdani\u2019s mayoral victory that Hot Girls for Zohran gave her a sense of purpose that her hundreds of thousands of social media followers didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like being around people that are so hopeful and joyous about politics is refreshing and it changed my outlook,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Rios and her fellow Mangione fangirls have also found joy in a family\u2019s devastating loss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mamdanis-office-draws-outrage-press-174447427.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insisting<\/a> that Thompson was \u201cresponsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Campus Cult\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>It should come as little surprise then that Rios on her <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@abrilluisarios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Substack<\/a> describes herself as \u201cfemale rage encourager, abolitionist, and socialist fascism resister weaponizing my master\u2019s degree.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And such liberals afflicted with severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome are filled with rage \u2014 and justify violence. <\/p>\n<p>A YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/articles\/52960-charlie-kirk-americans-political-violence-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> taken in the wake of the assassination of conservative lion Charlie Kirk found 25 percent of respondents who identified as \u201cvery liberal\u201d said violence is sometimes an acceptable means to a political end. About the same percentage said feeling joy about the deaths of political opponents is just fine. <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cuts-to-Woke-Programs-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taxpayer-funded universities<\/a> are mass producers of radicals, some bent on violence to achieve their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-object-to-2020-election\/\" title=\"Citizens Object To 2020 Election\">left-wing agenda<\/a>. Or as Joe Rogan once called U.S. higher education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/joe-rogan-woke-colleges-cult-camps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccult camps.\u201d<\/a> Education systems that reward promoters of political violence with big-salary jobs do not have the best interest of their students or their country at heart. <\/p>\n<p>Mangione\u2019s fan club members are steeped in indoctrination. Weissbrot, a Florida State University grad, received a <a href=\"https:\/\/2009-2017.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2015\/08\/245872.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fulbright Fellowship <\/a>to focus on \u201cmusic and social activism, music in learning, music and the community, and musical performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her social activism was on full display outside the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur government has abandoned us,\u201d Weissbrot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYfghPLpum-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a video posted on Instagram. \u201cWe are their cattle. They siphon our life force. We\u2019re done. And the American people need to get on the same page. Otherwise, you know, continue your death march into the meat grinder for the billionaire class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cult is hopping. <\/p>\n<p>I bet Manson\u2019s laughing in hell right now. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is packed with false prophets, but few match Charles Manson and his \u201cfamily.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2605738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.12.54-AM-1024x579.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6286,73837,9566,5894,4488],"class_list":["post-2605737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-assassination","tag-cults-2","tag-far-left","tag-politics","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-3.12.54-AM-1024x579.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605741,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605737\/revisions\/2605741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}