This past December, a wave of collective jouissance swept the internet as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare—a notoriously hated company even by the standards of one of America’s most hated industries—was gunned down by a lone assassin in the center of Manhattan. But the search for a political narrative to make sense of the newly minted folk hero soon ran aground. Rather than a radical leftist engaged in propaganda of the deed, as some hoped and others feared, the suspect (at least on the evidence of his internet presence) was an otherwise well-adjusted, successful and highly educated young man who nevertheless held a seemingly incoherent collection of niche social views.
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