The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About

There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that happens when the facts of a story refuse to cooperate with the story you have already decided to tell, and I think we are watching that dissonance play out in real time with Luigi Mangione, because the more that actually comes out about who this guyContinue reading “The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About”

Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do

It has been a day since I put the last piece up, and if anything the response has gotten weirder, not because anyone actually engaged with the substance of what I said, but because the mockery has just kept rolling in, the same laugh reacts, the same dismissive one liners, the same little chorus ofContinue reading “Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do”