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The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

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

Limestone sign on flat ground beside flagpoles
The front of the UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Photograph: Steven Garcia/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

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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