Taylor Lorenz is a special kind of idiot.
She's wildly confident in her ideas and opinions, despite them being demonstrably stupid and consistently disproven. Her hubris is such that she doesn't ever learn from her mistakes, even to the point where she destroys her own career.
Not that it matters for Lorenz. She's a grown woman who comes from a rich family and is drowning in connections with the elite. She can only fail upward, no matter what organization she finds herself at odds with, whether it's The Washington Post or Vox. Regardless of her status, she's still looked at as a journalist and someone who has her finger on the pulse of America.
But outside of her privileged upbringing and connections, Lorenz isn't really special in any regard, except for one. If you really need to know where the left's head is at, or what the misinformed in America thinking, you can just listen to Lorenz for five minutes to get an idea... if you can stomach it.
For instance, if you want to know what the left is thinking in terms of violence in the United States, Lorenz will tell you that it's not only a virtue to do it to certain people, but it's cute.
Here she is talking with CNN about Luigi Mangione, the coward who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, then ran away only to be arrested later. Thompson's job might have not made him the most famous person in America, especially since healthcare insurance companies are notoriously awful to people, but murdering him wasn't the answer.
Yet, Lorenz seems to think it was "revolutionary."
“It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals, as if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows,” Lorenz told CNN. “There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.”
For those unfamiliar with the word "stanning" it's slang for being an excessive fan of something.
When asked about all the women Mangione has attracted to the point of defending him, Lorenz could answer to that as well.
“You’re going to see women especially that feel like, Oh my God, right? Like, here’s this man, who, who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person that seems … like this morally good man, which is hard to find.”
Taylor Lorenz on Luigi Mangione: “You’re gonna see women especially that feel like, ‘oh my God, here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person that seems like this morally good man,’ which is hard to find." pic.twitter.com/HuXbpnYHol
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 14, 2025
We're going to do what America should do, and leave Lorenz behind for now, but her words are a solid sign of where too many people's heads are at. Mangione is very popular with many people for what he did to the point of being a celebrated hero. Moreover, he's apparently attractive enough that women are literally willing to look at him like a hero, a morally good man, and intelligent. They've fallen in love with him to the point where they've got an image of him in their heads that no fact or moral argument will penetrate.
Don't take my word for it. Just read the responses in this post on X sporting a picture of Mangione holding up a sign about supporting women's health and loving the women in his family. It's filled to the brim with sycophantic love for this murderer.
Just a glimpse of the real Luigi Mangione. pic.twitter.com/WKI6me5Ygc
— The Luigi Case (@LuigiCaseFiles) April 12, 2025
But lurking beneath it all is something even more sinister.
As Lorenz suggested, violence is good if it's directed against the right people (and you're handsome) and the right people are those who are a part of "the system." This alone suggests this isn't just stupidity, it's intentional brainwashing to create sympathy for those who act to harm the system.
Brianna Lyman at The Federalist put it well:
But the left seeks to make political violence acceptable. It’s classic Marxist theory, as explained in these pages by J.T. Young.
“Marxism … sees all human history as a sequence of conflicts between classes,” Young explained. “The classic leftist view … makes violence acceptable when wielded in pursuit of what the left sees as the inevitable revolution.”
Calling Mangione a “revolutionary” wasn’t a slip-up by Lorenz. It’s an effort to make political violence acceptable — so long as it can be used to force the left’s desired outcome.
To be clear, Lorenz is not one of the leaders trying to direct anyone. I believe she's one of the brainwashed, and she's using Marxist language because that's what she was taught to speak like.
But regardless, we're getting a glimpse of just how far the infection has gone in society. Violence has become a virtue. You might get punished for it, but to commit that violence elevates you in the eyes of "the people."
If this is where the left's head is at, then we're in for a really rough time in the very near future.
