The right believes the healthcare CEO shooting suspect is a ‘liberal wacko’. The truth is complicated

Fox News and rightwing pundits are railing against ‘Marxist brutality’, but the suspect’s beliefs were far from leftist

Republicans and rightwing commentators have done their best to tie Luigi Mangione to the political left in recent days.

In the telling of Fox News pundits and key media figures, Mangione and the tens of thousands of people who have come forward with their own criticisms of the healthcare insurance industry are all Democrats: “liberal wackos” and “violent revolutionaries” who are committed to “Marxist brutality”.

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