The assassination of the chief executive of one of the nation’s leading health care companies has left a nation reeling and wondering how we ever arrived at this moment in time.
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ProgressiveDemocratMassachusettsSen.ElizabethWarrencaughtmanyoffguardthisweekwhenshespokewithMSNBC’sJoyReidaboutthekillingofUnitedHealthcareCEOBrianThompson.AsFoxNewsreported,thelawmakersaid,“itwaswrongbutalsoservedasa‘warning’ofsortsthat‘youcanonlypushpeoplesofar.We’llsayitoverandover.Violenceisnevertheanswer.Thisguy[LuigiMangione]getsatrialwho’sallegedlykilledtheCEOofUnitedHealth[care],butyoucanonlypushpeoplesofar,andthentheystarttotakemattersintotheirownhands.’”
WhilemanycasualobserversweretakenabackatWarrenseemingtooffera“bothsides”takeontheslayingofahealthcareexecutive onthestreetsofManhattan,long-timefollowersofthesenator’scareerwerenotsurprised.
Tobefair,Warren’slatestdust-up,arguingthatifyoupushpeoplehardenough,theywill“starttotakemattersintotheirownhands”�